The Big Roads by Earl Swift
The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighway
A lively narrative history of how America’s modern roads came to be, following the engineers, politicians, entrepreneurs, and ordinary citizens who turned rutted paths and early auto trails into a national network of paved highways and the Interstate System. The book explains the technical innovations, political battles, funding schemes, and personal rivalries behind major projects, and shows how the new roads reshaped commerce, travel, cities, and the landscape—accelerating suburbanization, altering local economies, and changing how the country connected.
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- 2011
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- English
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