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

2011 • 375 pages

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I learned a lot about the interstate highway system in the US, not the least of which is that Eisenhower had less to do with it than I thought.
Parts of it reminded mt of an earlier read, a book about the railroad expansion in the 1800's.
Building the highways had similar problems.

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