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You'll find this a very good read, replete with photos of course.

The Roads That Built America: The Incredible Story of the U.S. Interstate System

by Dan McNichol

Book Overview

The year 2006 celebrates the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Interstate System, the most incredible road system in the world. Created by Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose WW II experiences taught him the necessity of a superhighway for military transport and evacuation in wartime, today's Interstate System is what connects our coasts and our borders, our cities and small towns.

It's made possible our suburban lifestyle and caused the vast proliferation of businesses from HoJos to Holiday Inns. And if you order something online, most likely it's a truck barreling along an interstate that gets the product to your door. Written by bestselling author Dan McNichol, The Roads that Built America is the fascinating story of the largest engineering project the world has ever known.

By Thriftbooks.com User, February 27, 2008

This is by far the finest book written on the Interstate System in it's fifty- year existence! I just can't put it down. It's written in a way that you can choose - the earlier pre-interstate era, or just the tunnel chapter, or whatever!

There are several very interesting "sidebars" on related subjects like a parcel company that thrived because of the Interstate, and how the sign design process evolved.

Author Dan McNichol is a respected authority on transportation journalism, and this has to be his greatest career milepost! In as much as the Interstate has had an impact on American society, this fine book provides miles of interesting reading!

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