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The Big Roads audiobook
- By: Earl Swift
- Category: General, History
- Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: December 12, 2011
- Language: English
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The Big Roads Audiobook Summary
A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a bringer of blight and sprawl and the possibility of escape-the U.S. interstate system transformed America. The Big Roads presents the surprising history of how we got from dirt tracks to expressways in the space of a single lifetime.Earl Swift brings to light the visionaries who created these essential highways as well as the critics and citizens who questioned their headlong expansion throughout the country, including:Carl Fisher, the irrepressible car-racing entrepreneur who spurred the push for good roads in the early years of the automobile, built the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and made a fortune creating Miami Beach, only to lose it all;Thomas MacDonald, chief among a handful of driven engineers who conceived of the interstates and how they would work, years before President Eisenhower knew the plans existed;Lewis Mumford, the critic whose crusade against America’s budding love affair with the automobile-and the ever bigger roads it required-now seems prescient;Joe Wiles, an African American family man turned activist, one of thousands of ordinary citizens in dozens of cities who found their homes and communities targeted by the concrete juggernaut-and were unwilling to be uprooted in the name of progress.In mapping a fascinating route through the dreams, discoveries, and protests that shaped these mighty roads, Swift shows that the interstates embody the wanderlust, grand scale, and conflicting notions of citizenship that define America.
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The Big Roads Full Details
| Length | 12 hours 31 minutes |
| Author | Earl Swift |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Tantor Media, Inc |
| Release date | December 12, 2011 |
| ISBN | 9781452675350 |
Additional info
The publisher of the The Big Roads is Tantor Media, Inc. The imprint is Tantor Media, Inc. It is supplied by Tantor Media, Inc. The ISBN-13 is 9781452675350.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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