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Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
By Tom Lewis
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 2013
PBK, 387 pages, Updated Edition, US$19.95
ISBN: 978-0-8014-7822-2
Reviewed by Terri Hall for Selous Foundation for Public Policy Research
September 17, 2013
"Little else has given common man access to landscape, mobility, and commerce, as interstates,” observes Tom Lewis is his book Divided Highways, Building Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life. Americans have always prized their freedom, and freedom of mobility is no different. It took forty years to build the interstate highway system, not thirteen years as the Federal-Aid Highway Act originally intended when it was signed by President Eisenhower in 1956. But few national programs have transformed the American way of life so positively as the interstate highway system.
Interstates facilitate Americans’ ability “to live where we want and go where we wish.” At the ribbon cutting of one of the last stretches of interstate to open in Los Angeles in 1993, a minister declared the structure that which “links and binds us together.”
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