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The National Road and the Difficult Path to Sustainable National Investment
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2011
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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 century in the form of U.S. Route 40.
The story of the National Road embraces an account of its building, its constitutional significance, the unique culture that it represented, the movements and trends that transpired across its route, and the symbolic value that it held, and continues to hold, for the American people. Beyond its status as an American heritage symbol, it serves as a forceful reminder that the United States must continue to pursue the goal of sustainable national investment that began with the National Road and comparable projects during the early republic.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-61149-020-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-61149-021-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
296
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
The Constitution ofthe United States No access
CHAPTER 1. Washington’s Role No access
CHAPTER 2. Jefferson, Gallatin, and the Legislation of 1806 No access
CHAPTER 3. Madison: CONSTRUCTION IN THE SHADOW OF WAR AND THE BONUS BILL VETO No access
CHAPTER 4. Monroe’s Compromise and the Tollgate Battle No access
CHAPTER 5. John Quincy Adams and the High-Water Mark of the National Road as a National Road No access
CHAPTER 6. Andrew Jackson and the Transfer of the National Road to the States No access
CHAPTER 7. The National Road and the Law, Politics, and Policy of Internal Improvement No access
CHAPTER 8. Laying Out and Building the National Road No access
CHAPTER 9. Confronting Problems in Road Construction East of the Ohio in the Madison and Monroe Years: AN ARCHIVAL ACCOUNT No access
CHAPTER 10. The Culture of the National Road in Its Prime No access
CHAPTER 11. The Road as a Microcosm of Early-Republic America No access
CHAPTER 12. The Decline and Revival of the Road No access
CHAPTER 13. The National Road, the Creation of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, and the Post-Interstate Era: The Origins of the Dwight D. EisenhowerInterstate Highway System No access
CHAPTER 14. The National Road as National Symbol No access
CHAPTER 15. The National Road and the Enduring Role of the Federal Spending Power No access
CHAPTER 16. A National Road Perspective on America’s Twenty-First-Century Infrastructure Challenges No access
Epilogue: THE NATIONAL ROAD, THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT, AND SUSTAINABLE NATIONAL INVESTMENT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY No access Pages 219 - 236
Appendix: National Road Time Line No access Pages 237 - 240
