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The big roads : the untold story of the engineers, visionaries, and trailblazers who created the American superhighways / Earl Swift.

Title
The big roads : the untold story of the engineers, visionaries, and trailblazers who created the American superhighways / Earl Swift.
Author
Swift, Earl, 1958-
Publication
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

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Description
375 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"A history of the planning, construction, and impact of the U.S. interstate highway system"--
Subject
  • HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
  • HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General
  • Highway engineering > United States > History > 20th century
  • Highway engineers > United States > Biography
  • Interstate Highway System > History > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-358) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Out of the mud -- Connecting the dots -- The crooked straight, the rough places plain -- The human obstacle.
ISBN
  • 9780618812417 (hardback)
  • 0618812415 (hardback)
LCCN
^^2010043624
OCLC
651911390
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library