The Big Roads (repost)
The Big Roads By Earl Swift
Publisher: Houg.,.hton Miff..lin Ha..rco,.urt 2011 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0618812415 | PDF | 5 MB
Publisher: Houg.,.hton Miff..lin Ha..rco,.urt 2011 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0618812415 | PDF | 5 MB
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.