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“”O public road, You express me better than I can express myself.” – Walt Whitman
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The 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy
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U.S. Federal Government Support for Interstate Roads The National Road – 1818 to 1852 Good Roads Act of 1916 Federal Highway Act -- 1921
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Thomas McDonald and the Bureau of Public Roads
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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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Robert Frank. The Americans : photographs. Introd. by Jack Kerouac. InfoNew York : Grove Press, 1959.Robert Frank.
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Mussolini and the Autostrade in Italy – 1930s
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Hitler, Mass Motorization, and the Autobahn – 1930s
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The Pennsylvania Turnpike, 1940
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LA Freeways – Lloyd Aldrich, 1938
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