The big roads the untold story of the engineers, visionaries, and trailblazers who created the american superhighways
(Audiobook CD)
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[Old Saybrook, CT] : Tantor Media, p2011.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Highland Falls Library - Adult Book on CD | Swift,Earl | On Shelf |
Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Book on CD | BCD 388.122 SWI | On Shelf |
New City Library - Adult Book on CD | BCD 388.122 SWIFT | On Shelf |
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Published
[Old Saybrook, CT] : Tantor Media, p2011.
Format
Audiobook CD
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11 sound discs (13.50 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
UPC
9781452605357
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Title from web page.
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Compact discs.
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Duration: 13:30:00.
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Read by Rob Shapiro.
Description
A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a bringer of blight and sprawl and the possibility of escape--the U.S. interstate system transformed America. The Big Roads presents the surprising history of how we got from dirt tracks to expressways in the span of a single lifetime. From the turn-of-the-century car-racing entrepreneur who spurred the "Good Roads" movement, to the handful of driven engineers who conceived of the interstates and how they would work--years before President Eisenhower knew the plans existed--to the protests that erupted when the projects encountered people unwilling to be uprooted in the name of progress, Swift follows a winding route through the dreams, discoveries and protest that shaped these mighty roads, and shows how the interstates embody the wanderlust, grand scale, and conflicting notions of citizenship and progress that define America.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Swift, E., & Shapiro, R. (2011). The big roads: the untold story of the engineers, visionaries, and trailblazers who created the american superhighways . Tantor Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Swift, Earl, 1958- and Rob, Shapiro. 2011. The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways. Tantor Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Swift, Earl, 1958- and Rob, Shapiro. The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways Tantor Media, 2011.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Swift, Earl, and Rob Shapiro. The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways Tantor Media, 2011.
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