The big roads: the untold story of the engineers, visionaries, and trailblazers who created the American superhighways
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"A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a bringer of blight and sprawl and the possibility of escape the U.S. interstate system changed the face of our country. The Big Roads charts the creation of these essential American highways. From the turn-of-the-century car racing entrepreneur who spurred the citizen-led "Good Roads" movement, to the handful of driven engineers who conceived of the interstates and how they would work years before President Eisenhower knew the plans existed to the protests that erupted across the nation when highways reached the cities and found people unwilling to be uprooted in the name of progress, Swift follows a winding, fascinating route through twentieth-century American life. How did we get from dirt tracks to expressways, from main streets to off-ramps, from mud to concrete and steel, in less than a century? Through decades of politics, activism, and marvels of engineering, we recognize in our highways the wanderlust, grand scale, and conflicting notions of citizenship and progress that define America"--
"A history of the planning, construction, and impact of the U.S. interstate highway system"--
"A history of the planning, construction, and impact of the U.S. interstate highway system"--
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Highway engineering
Highway engineering -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Highway engineers
Highway engineers -- United States -- Biography
History
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General
Interstate Highway System
Interstate Highway System -- History -- 20th century
Nonfiction
Highway engineering -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Highway engineers
Highway engineers -- United States -- Biography
History
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General
Interstate Highway System
Interstate Highway System -- History -- 20th century
Nonfiction
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9780547549132
9780547549132
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title_full | The Big Roads The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways The big roads : the untold story of the engineers, visionaries, and trailblazers who created the American superhighways / Earl Swift | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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topic_facet | HISTORY / United States / 20th Century HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General Highway engineering Highway engineers History Interstate Highway System Nonfiction |