The Lincoln Highway
Subtitle: coast to coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate
By: Michael Wallis and Michael S. Williamson.
Contributors: Williamson, Michael, 1957-
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780393059380
Subjects: Lincoln Highway -- History; Automobile travel -- United States; Lincoln Highway -- Pictorial works; United States -- Description and travel
Genres: Pictorial works.
Description: "The best-selling author of Route 66 and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer celebrate America's first transcontinental highway in all its neon glory. It began in 1913 with a glorious new highway--stretching across 3,389 miles and 13 states--that connected the bright lights of Broadway with the foggy shores of San Francisco. It was a magnificent and meandering road that enticed millions of newly motoring Americans to hop into their Model Ts and explore the fading frontier. The Lincoln Highway. It was the road of Gettysburg, Pretty Boy Floyd, Notre Dame, the Great Salt Lake, and the Gold Rush Trail. Once a symbol of limitless potential, it is now undergoing (as Route 66 did twenty years ago) a miraculous revival. With hundreds of new and rare photographs provided by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Michael S. Williamson, this ode to a bygone era guides us across the true spine of the country, exploring vintage diners, Art Deco buildings, and funky roadside attractions, all waiting to be discovered."--Publisher's website.

A tribute to the American transcontinental highway built in 1913 evaluates its historic and cultural relevance as well as current efforts to repair its key segments.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.