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Lewis, Tom

 
9780670866274: Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
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ISBN 10: 067086627X ISBN 13: 9780670866274
Editorial: Viking, 1997

Sinopsis

In "Divided Highways," Tom Lewis tells the monumental story of the largest engineered structure ever built: the Interstate Highway System. Here is one of the great untold tales of American enterprise, recounted entirely through the stories of the human beings who thought up, mapped out, poured, paved - and tried to stop - the Interstates. Conceived and spearheaded by Thomas "the Chief" MacDonald, the iron-willed bureaucrat from the muddy farmlands of Iowa who rose to unrivaled power, the highway system was propelled forward through the pathbreaking efforts of brilliant engineers, argued over by politicians of every ideological and moral stripe, reviled by the citizens whose lives it devastated, and lauded as the greatest public works project in U.S. history.

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In "Divided Highways," Tom Lewis tells the monumental story of the largest engineered structure ever built: the Interstate Highway System. Here is one of the great untold tales of American enterprise, recounted entirely through the stories of the human beings who thought up, mapped out, poured, paved - and tried to stop - the Interstates. Conceived and spearheaded by Thomas "the Chief" MacDonald, the iron-willed bureaucrat from the muddy farmlands of Iowa who rose to unrivaled power, the highway system was propelled forward through the pathbreaking efforts of brilliant engineers, argued over by politicians of every ideological and moral stripe, reviled by the citizens whose lives it devastated, and lauded as the greatest public works project in U.S. history.

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Editorial
Viking
Año de publicación
1997
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
067086627X
ISBN 13 
9780670866274
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
368
Contacto del fabricante
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9780801478222: Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life (Updated)

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ISBN 10:  0801478227 ISBN 13:  9780801478222
Editorial: Cornell University Press, 2013
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