Divided Highways Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life

Name: Divided Highways Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
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ISBN: 9780801478222

ISBN-10: 0801478227

ISBN-13: 9780801478222

Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: Tom Lewis

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In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1956, which promoted a technocratic approach to modern road building sometimes at the expense of individual lives, regional characteristics, and the landscape. With thoughtful analysis and engaging prose Lewis charts the development of the Interstate system, including the demographic and economic pressures that influenced its planning and construction and the disputes that pitted individuals and…

Book details

List price: $45.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 4/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English

Tom Lewis is Professor of English at Skidmore College. He is the author of Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio and The Hudson: A History , as well as researcher, writer, or producer for documentary films including Brooklyn Bridge, The Shakers , and Empire of the Air (all directed by Ken Burns) and Divided Highways (directed by Larry Hott and Diane Garey).



Preface to the Cornell Edition


Preface






The Chief



Mastering Nature



The Dreamway



The GI and the General






A Grand Plan



The Great Puzzle



Lines of Desire






Revolt



Busting the Trust



New Rules



Continental Drift



The Greatest of Improvements



Buried Desires


Sources and Notes


Selected Bibliography


Supplemental Bibliography to the Cornell Edition


Acknowledgments


Index