Divided highways
Subtitle: building the interstate highways, transforming American life
By: Tom Lewis.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Roads -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; Transportation, Automotive -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-337) and index.