The Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the

The Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas

From the award-winning author of American Canopy, a dazzling account of the worldâ€™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 centuryâ€™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 highwayâ€™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 Highwayâ€”the United Statesâ€™ other great twentieth-century hemispheric infrastructure projectâ€”has become an orphan of the past, effectively erased from the story of the â€œAmerican Century.â€

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. Rutkowâ€™s narrative forces the reader to take seriously the question: Why couldnâ€™t the Americas have become a single region that â€œisâ€ and not two near irreconcilable halves that â€œareâ€? Whether youâ€™re fascinated by the history of the Americas, or youâ€™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.
Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2019-01-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501103902

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2019-01-08
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501103902

The Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas

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