Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life

Tom Lewis

Published by Cornell University Press 2013

Divided Highways

Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life

Tom Lewis

https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801467837

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About this book

An engaging history of the people and policies that profoundly transformed the American landscape—and the daily lives of Americans.

Author / Editor information

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).

Reviews

David Schuyler, Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities and American Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, author of Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909:

Tom Lewis is a very talented and engaging writer, and the tale he tells—the vision for the Interstates, Congressional battles, construction, and the impact of new highways on American life—is important to understanding the shape of the contemporary American landscape.

Kenneth T. Jackson:

Divided Highways is the best and most important book yet published about how asphalt and concrete have changed the United States. Quite simply, the Interstate Highway System is the longest and largest engineered structure in the history of the world, and it has enormously influenced every aspect of American life. Tom Lewis is an engaging prose stylist with a gift for the telling anecdote and appropriate example.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface to the Cornell Edition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Preface: A Space Filled with Moving Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
PART 1
1. The Chief Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. Mastering Nature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3. The Dreamway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
4. The GI and the General Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
PART 2
5. A Grand Plan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
6. The Great Puzzle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
7. Lines of Desire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
PART 3
8. Revolt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
9. Rusting the Trust Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
10. New Rules Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
11. Continental Drift Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
12. The Greatest of Improvements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
13. Buried Desires Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Sources and Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
Supplemental Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Edition: Updated Edition
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 416
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 17
- Images: 17
- Other: 17 halftones
Keywords: modern infrastructure; highway system; engineered structure; impact of highways; highway development; bureau of public roads; american policy; federal infrastructure

eBook

Published: April 19, 2013
ISBN: 9780801467837