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Divided Highways
Tom Lewis
其他書名
Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
出版Viking, 1997
主題History / GeneralHistory / United States / 20th CenturyTechnology & Engineering / Civil / GeneralTechnology & Engineering / Civil / Highway & Traffic
ISBN067086627X9780670866274
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8ia3AAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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.