The National Road and the Difficult Path to Sustainable National Investment

by Theodore Sky

The National Road is a comprehensive history of the first federally financed interstate highway, an approximately 600-mile span that joined Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois in the nineteenth century. This book covers the road's contribution to the cultural, economic, and administrative history of the United States, its decline during the second half of the nineteenth century, and its revival in the twentieth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611490200
• ISBN13: 9781611490206
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"