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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.)

Bilger, Burkhard, "The Long Dig," The New Yorker, September 15, 2008. (Covers the development of tunnels technology, the history of tunnel construction in Switzerland, and how tunnels transformed the Swiss economy.)

Fein, Michael R., Paving the Way: New York Road Building and the American State, 1880-1956, University Press of Kansas, 2008.

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.)

Heitmann, John, The Automobile and American Life, McFarland and Company, 2009

Jakle, John A., and Sculle, Keith A., Motoring: The Highway Experience in America, University of Georgia Press, 2008. (From the book jacket: "Motoring unmasks the forces that shape the American driving experience-commercial, aesthetic, cultural, mechanical-as it takes a timely look back at our historically unconditional love of motor travel.")

Kroplick, Howard, and Velocci, Al, The Long Island Motor Parkway, Images of America, Arcadia Publishing, 2008.

Kupperberg, Paul, The Alaska Highway, Chelsea House Publishers, 2009. (Part of Chelsea House's series Building America: Then and Now.)

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.")

Murphy, John, The Eisenhower Interstate System, Chelsea House Publishers, 2009. (Part of Chelsea's "Building America: Then and Now" series, "celebrating the most famous and important construction projects that changed the United States from an open frontier to the most important country in the world.")

Prentzas, G.S., The Brooklyn Bridge, Building America Then and Now, Chelsea House Publishers, 2009.

Rugh, Susan Sessions, Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of American Family Vacations, University Press of Kansas, 2008. (The rise and fall of the family vacation in the post-World War II era to the early 1970s.)

Taylor, Michael C., Road of Difficulties: Building the Lower Columbia River Highway, Bear Creek Press, 2008. (The story of the almost forgotten road from Portland to the Pacific Ocean at Astoria, the twin of the upper route through the Historic Columbia River Highway.)

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