{"product_id":"book-bj2f","title":"The Big Roads","description":"A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a bringer of blight and sprawl and the possibility of escape—the U.S. interstate system transformed America. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Big Roads\u003c\/span\u003e presents the surprising history of how we got from dirt tracks to expressways in the space of a single lifetime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarl Swift brings to light the visionaries who created these essential highways as well as the critics and citizens who questioned their headlong expansion throughout the country, including:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCarl Fisher, the irrepressible car-racing entrepreneur who spurred the push for good roads in the early years of the automobile, built the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and made a fortune creating Miami Beach, only to lose it all;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThomas MacDonald, chief among a handful of driven engineers who conceived of the interstates and how they would work, years before President Eisenhower knew the plans existed;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLewis Mumford, the critic whose crusade against America's budding love affair with the automobile—and the ever bigger roads it required—now seems prescient;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoe Wiles, an African American family man turned activist, one of thousands of ordinary citizens in dozens of cities who found their homes and communities targeted by the concrete juggernaut—and were unwilling to be uprooted in the name of progress.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eIn mapping a fascinating route through the dreams, discoveries, and protests that shaped these mighty roads, Swift shows that the interstates embody the wanderlust, grand scale, and conflicting notions of citizenship that define America.","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49390346993968,"sku":"BDbj2f","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49390347059504,"sku":"ZEbj2f","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49390347125040,"sku":"ZMbj2f","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49390347321648,"sku":"40bj2f","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/bj2f-Square-cover.jpg?v=1779007279","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bj2f","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}