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"You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters."
- Saint Bernard
(1091 - 1153),
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| | Divided Highways:
Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
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ZIN Product Number: 10025916
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 354 pages
Publisher: Penguin USA
ISBN: 0140267719
Release Date: Jan 1, 2000
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 1 review.)
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What do Levittown, the 1939 World's Fair, and the Model T have in common? To what invention can the existence of suburban sprawl, toll booths, mall shopping, an oil-obsessed foreign policy, fast food, and air and noise pollution be attributed?
The interstate highway. This landmark enterprise of the 1950s literally changed the face of America for eternity. In 1919, Dwight D. Eisenhower needed sixty-two days to travel from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco. Now, eighty years and 42,500 miles of paved roads later, the trip can be made in less than seventy-two hours.
Divided Highways is the fascinating history behind the efforts to make cement trails across America, told through the stories of the people who dreamed up, mapped out, paved—and even tried to stop—the interstate highways. Popular historian Tom Lewis details "man's triumph over nature" in an engaging, sweeping style. Award-winning film director Ken Burns says: "He tells the story of how we get from point A to point B in America. And just as our lives should be, Lewis makes the journey more interesting and meaningful than the destination."
* Basis of the 1997 Peabody Award-winning PBS documentary.
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A terrific overview of a vast topic
-- Dave, a public policy student, May 23, 2002
Also Recommended: The Power Broker, by Robert A. Caro; The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs; Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies, by John W. Kingdon
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