Product Description

The year 2006 celebrates the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Interstate System, the most incredible road system in the world. Created by Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose WW II experiences taught him the necessity of a superhighway for military transport and evacuation in wartime, today's Interstate System is what connects our coasts and our borders, our cities and small towns. It's made possible our suburban lifestyle and caused the vast proliferation of businesses from HoJos to Holiday Inns. And if you order something online, most likely it's a truck barreling along an interstate that gets the product to your door. Written by bestselling author Dan McNichol, The Roads that Built America is the fascinating story of the largest engineering project the world has ever known.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #163242 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781402734687
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

good value book
A high quality printing, on quality paper,with lots of interesting pictures,and a fairly complete general history of the interstates from their conception and idea on into the near future of these roads,more or less a coffeetable book in some ways but a very affordable price.Quite a bit of information within it's 200 some pages.

Great History on Transportation
I loved this book. Read the whole thing in 2-1/2 days.

I'm a transportation engineer, so I am probably biased. This book does a fantastic job of showing the history of the American transportation system. It starts in the revolutionary war days and continues to modern times. There are hundreds of fantastic pictures to compliment the text. This is the best overall book of the American highway transportation system that I've read. Well worth the money.

A good starting point...
I found this book to be a comprehensive accounting of the developement of our highway system beginning with our very first national road and going thru to Boston's big dig. The book doesn't get bogged down with details, and has lots of good pictures. If you want a lot of information in a hurry, you'll enjoy this book.

I've read several books on this subject, and this one is like the others in one regard: I'd enjoy reading more about the actual construction details- the unforseen problems, the mishaps and mistakes, the million other events that occur between groundbreaking and ribbon-cutting. Nonetheless, a good book, I enjoyed it.