The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

by Mark H. Rose, Bruce Edsall Seely, Paul F. Barrett, et al.

The Best Transportation System in the World focuses on the centrality of government in organizing the nation's transportation industries. As the authors show, over the course of the twentieth century, transportation in the United States was as much a product of hard-fought politics, lobbying, and litigation as it was a naturally evolving system of engineering and available technology.

For example, in the mid-1950s, President Eisenhower,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812221168
• ISBN13: 9780812221169
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"