Full name: The Last Three Miles: Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway

Author: Steven Hart Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781595580986 1595580980

A sweeping, investigative history of the building of the road connecting Manhattan to the rest of the country. At the dawn of America's love affair with the automobile, cars and trucks leaving the nation's largest city were unceremoniously dumped out of the western end of the Holland Tunnel onto local roads wending their way through the New Jersey Meadowlands. Jersey City mayor Frank Hague--dictator of the Hudson County political machine and a national political player--was a prime mover behind the building of the country's first superhighway, designed to connect the hub of New York City to the United States of America. Hague's nemesis in this undertaking was union boss Teddy Brandle, and construction of the last three miles of Route 25, later dubbed the Pulaski Skyway, marked an epic battle between big labor and big politics, culminating in a murder... Similar books: The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan All Hell Let Loose by Max Hastings 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof by J. A. Rogers Dreamers and Deceivers by Glenn Beck Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea by Daniel V. Gallery History by Adam Hart-Davis Astoria by Peter Stark Nature's Metropolis by William Cronon The Gold Hunters by J. D. Borthwick The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence Inside the Victorian Home by Judith Flanders Congo by David Van Reybrouck The Structures of Everyday Life by Fernand Braudel Troublemakers by Leslie Berlin The Rich Don't Always Win by Sam Pizzigati Bird Woman by J. W. Schultz Champion Hill by Timothy B. Smith The Weight of Vengeance by Troy Bickham Where the Sea Breaks Its Back by Corey Ford That Every Man Be Armed by Stephen P. Halbrook