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The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways

Bibliographic Details Author: Earl Swift Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Year: 2011 Pages: 384 Thesis Statement Earl Swift argues that the American interstate highway system—conceived in the Progressive Era, planned in the 1930s, and built between 1956 and 1992—was not merely … Continue reading →

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