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The National Road and the Difficult Path to Sustainable National Investment
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The National Road and the Difficult Path to Sustainable National Investment
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The National Road is a comprehensive history of the first federally financed interstate highway, an approximately 600-mile span that joined Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois in the nineteenth century. This book covers the road's contribution to the cultural, economic, and administrative history of the United States, its decline during the second half of the nineteenth century, and its revival in the twentieth century in the form of U.S. Route 40.
The story of the National Road embraces an account of its building, its constitutional significance, the unique culture that it represented, the movements and trends that transpired across its route, and the symbolic value that it held, and continues to hold, for the American people. Beyond its status as an American heritage symbol, it serves as a forceful reminder that the United States must continue to pursue the goal of sustainable national investment that began with the National Road and comparable projects during the early republic.
The story of the National Road embraces an account of its building, its constitutional significance, the unique culture that it represented, the movements and trends that transpired across its route, and the symbolic value that it held, and continues to hold, for the American people. Beyond its status as an American heritage symbol, it serves as a forceful reminder that the United States must continue to pursue the goal of sustainable national investment that began with the National Road and comparable projects during the early republic.
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Table of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: The Great Debates about the National Road
- The Constitution of the United States
- Chapter 1: Washingtonâs Role
- Chapter 2: Jefferson, Gallatin, and the Legislation of 1806
- Chapter 3: Madison
- Chapter 4: Monroeâs Compromise and the Tollgate Battle
- Chapter 5: John Quincy Adams and the High-Water Mark of the National Road as a National Road
- Chapter 6: Andrew Jackson and the Transfer of the National Road to the States
- Chapter 7: The National Road and the Law, Politics, and Policy of Internal Improvement
- Part II: The National Road in Its Prime
- Chapter 8: Laying Out and Building the National Road
- Chapter 9: Confronting Problems in Road Construction East of the Ohio in the Madison and Monroe Years
- Chapter 10: The Culture of the National Road in Its Prime
- Chapter 11: The Road as a Microcosm of Early-Republic America
- Part III: The Decline and Revival of the Road, Its Role as a Precursor of the Interstate System, and Its Place as a National Symbol
- Chapter 12: The Decline and Revival of the Road
- Chapter 13: The National Road, the Creation of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, and the Post-Interstate Era
- Chapter 14: The National Road as National Symbol
- Part IV: Twenty-First-Century Legacy
- Chapter 15: The National Road and the Enduring Role of the Federal Spending Power
- Chapter 16: A National Road Perspective on Americaâs Twenty-First-Century Infrastructure Challenges
- Epilogue
- Appendix: National Road Time Line
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author