Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway by Matt Dellinger has it all: heroes, villians, greed, passion, a decades-long struggle over asphalt that, if completed, will run from Michigan to Mexico.
The reprting is first-rate and the writing is unexpectedly colorful:
"I have seen, in the suburbs of Houston, crowded strip-mall parking lots where the unfortunate driver who takes the last spot in a row crowded with muscular pickup trucks and SUVS must shimmy out of her half-open door like Houdini."
Read this because it's about much more than a road: it's about the fortunes of the towns that line it.
http://www.amazon.com/Interstate-69-Unfinished-History-American/dp/1416542493/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1299261213&sr=8-3
The reprting is first-rate and the writing is unexpectedly colorful:
"I have seen, in the suburbs of Houston, crowded strip-mall parking lots where the unfortunate driver who takes the last spot in a row crowded with muscular pickup trucks and SUVS must shimmy out of her half-open door like Houdini."
Read this because it's about much more than a road: it's about the fortunes of the towns that line it.
http://www.amazon.com/Interstate-69-Unfinished-History-American/dp/1416542493/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1299261213&sr=8-3
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