General and Travel

Algeo, Matthew, Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip, Chicago Review Press, 2009. (In June 1953, former President Truman, a man who loved cars and roads, embarked on his last great road trip - this is the story of that trip.) (listed 04/07/09)

Burns, John M., Thunder at Sunrise: A History of the Vanderbilt Cup, the Grand Prize, and the Indianapolis 500, 1904-1916, McFarland and Company, 2006. (Early auto racing, such as the Vanderbilt Cup, was a spur to the Good Roads Movement.) (listed 04/07/09)

Heitmann, John, The Automobile and American Life, McFarland and Company, 2009 (listed 04/07/09)

Flint, Anthony, Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City, Random House, 2009. (The Clash of Titans between the autocratic, imperious master builder Robert Moses and the author of the classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) over three Moses developments, including a 4-lane highway through Washington Square and an elevated 10-lane Lower Manhattan Expressway through SoHo, Little Italy, Chinatown, and the Lower East Side.) (listed 08/11/09)

McConnell, Curt, "A Reliable Car and a Woman Who Knows It: The First Coast-to-Coast Auto Trips by Women 1899-1916," McFarland and Company, 2000. (The story of Alice Ramsay, the first woman to cross the country by auto, and other women who tried or succeeded.) (listed 04/07/09)

Prentzas, G.S., The Brooklyn Bridge, Building America Then and Now, Chelsea House Publishers, 2009. (listed 04/07/09)

Routes

Kupperberg, Pau, The Alaska Highway, Chelsea House Publishers, 2009. (Part of Chelsea House's series Building America: Then and Now.) (listed 05/07/09)

Mangum, Richard K. and Sherry G., The National Old Trail Road in Arizona, Hexagon Press, Inc., 2008. ("The Fascinating Story of the Legendary Highway that Became Route 66.") (listed 07/15/09)