Last Three Miles Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway

Name: Last Three Miles Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway
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ISBN: 9781595580986

ISBN-10: 1595580980

ISBN-13: 9781595580986

Edition: 2007

Authors: Steven Hart

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In the tradition of Robert Caro'sThe Power Broker, a sweeping, investigative history of the building of the road connecting Manhattan to the rest of the country. At the dawn of America's love affair with the automobile, cars and trucks leaving the nation's largest city were unceremoniously dumped out of the western end of the Holland Tunnel onto local roads wending their way through the New Jersey Meadowlands. Jersey City mayor Frank Haguedictator of the Hudson County political machine and a national political playerwas a prime mover behind the building of the country's first "superhighway," designed to connect the hub of New York City to the United States of America. Hague's nemesis in…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 6/5/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.76" wide x 8.50" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction



The Three Barriers



The Horseshoe Against the World



The Slanted Road



Rice Pudding



Burned Bridges



The War of the Meadows



High, Wide, and Handsome



The Nightstick Must Prevail



Death Avenue



Steel and Ghosts


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index