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The Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and...
by Rutkow, Eric | HC | Good
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- Objectstaat
- Goed
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
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- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 1501103903
- Book Title
- Longest Line on the Map : The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Transportation, History, Political Science
- Topic
- Automotive / History, Modern / 20th Century, General, International Relations / General, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 22.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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From the award-winning author of American Canopy , a dazzling account of the world's longest road, the Pan-American Highway, and the epic quest to link North and South America, a dramatic story of commerce, technology, politics, and the divergent fates of the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Pan-American Highway, monument to a century's worth of diplomacy and investment, education and engineering, scandal and sweat, is the longest road in the world, passable everywhere save the mythic Darien Gap that straddles Panama and Colombia. The highway's history, however, has long remained a mystery, a story scattered among government archives, private papers, and fading memories. In contrast to the Panama Canal and its vast literature, the Pan-American Highway--the United States' other great twentieth-century hemispheric infrastructure project--has become an orphan of the past, effectively erased from the story of the "American Century." The Longest Line on the Map uncovers this incredible tale for the first time and weaves it into a tapestry that fascinates, informs, and delights. Rutkow's narrative forces the reader to take seriously the question: Why couldn't the Americas have become a single region that "is" and not two near irreconcilable halves that "are"? Whether you're fascinated by the history of the Americas, or you've dreamed of driving around the globe, or you simply love world records and the stories behind them, The Longest Line on the Map is a riveting narrative, a lost epic of hemispheric scale.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1501103903
ISBN-13
9781501103902
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239701377
Product Key Features
Book Title
Longest Line on the Map : The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Automotive / History, Modern / 20th Century, General, International Relations / General, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Publication Year
2019
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Transportation, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
22.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
He358.R88 2019
Reviews
"Rutkow's excellent, thoroughly researched, and unusual look at this complicated mix of infrastructure innovations and international relations will engage a variety of reading tastes." -- Booklist, "Everybody loves a shaggy dog story. A good one should be long and implausible but still on the edge of possibility. The chronicle at the heart of Eric Rutkow's The Longest Line on the Map seems to qualify. The story involves the decades-long attempt to construct thousands of miles of railway--and, later, highway--to 'link the Americas.'" -- The Wall Street Journal "Rutkow's fascination with the Pan-American highway is evident in this meticulously researched and vividly recounted drama. He combines a historian's eye for detail with a storyteller's skill at bringing to life the dynamic political and social forces that conceived and constructed the international corridor." -- Shelf Awareness, starred review "A powerful argument against Washington's growing embrace of isolationist policies at home and abroad. Highly recommended for U.S. and diplomatic historians, geopolitical scholars, and general readers." -- Library Journal , starred review "At times The Longest Line on the Map resembles a relay race, with smart, young, hardy engineers and diplomats thinking they can tame this infrastructural beast, only to cede their ground decades later as death, disease, or sheer weariness overcome them. It's a testament to Rutkow's skills at distilling information that he keeps the dozens of players clear in your mind as his narrative proceeds." -- Boston Globe, "Rutkow offers a richly detailed examination of efforts to build a highway from Alaska to the tip of Argentina... A fresh, well-documented account of U.S.-Latin American relations." -- Kirkus Reviews, "Everybody loves a shaggy dog story. A good one should be long and implausible but still on the edge of possibility. The chronicle at the heart of Eric Rutkow's The Longest Line on the Map seems to qualify. The story involves the decades-long attempt to construct thousands of miles of railway--and, later, highway--to 'link the Americas.'" -- The Wall Street Journal "Rutkow's fascination with the Pan-American highway is evident in this meticulously researched and vividly recounted drama. He combines a historian's eye for detail with a storyteller's skill at bringing to life the dynamic political and social forces that conceived and constructed the international corridor." -- Shelf Awareness, starred review "A powerful argument against Washington's growing embrace of isolationist policies at home and abroad. Highly recommended for U.S. and diplomatic historians, geopolitical scholars, and general readers." -- Library Journal , starred review "Rutkow is a graceful writer with a penchant for well-placed classical allusions... The narrative finds its highest velocity near the end, with a fascinating section on a North Carolina schoolteacher's efforts to bushwhack his way through the Darien Gap, and Richard Nixon's stated desire to drive the finished road himself in time for the 1976 bicentennial . " -- New York Times Book Review
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2019
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