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1 “”O public road, You express me better than I can express myself.” – Walt Whitman

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4 The 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy

5 U.S. Federal Government Support for Interstate Roads The National Road – 1818 to 1852 Good Roads Act of 1916 Federal Highway Act -- 1921

6 Thomas McDonald and the Bureau of Public Roads

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16 What is Good for GM is What is Good for America? Alfred P. Sloan and the Highway Users’ Conference – 1930s The Rise of the So-called “Road Gang” The Replacement of Trolleys with Buses in American Cities

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42 Robert Frank. The Americans : photographs. Introd. by Jack Kerouac. InfoNew York : Grove Press, 1959.Robert Frank.

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59 Mussolini and the Autostrade in Italy – 1930s

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61 Hitler, Mass Motorization, and the Autobahn – 1930s

62 The Pennsylvania Turnpike, 1940

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64 LA Freeways – Lloyd Aldrich, 1938

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