Overbuilt: The High Costs and Low Rewards of Us Highway Construction by Erick Guerra Marble City Press illustrated James Ransome

illustrated James Ransome

including Oranges

Meiners focuses on five familiar trees--the American elm

patient and fastidious ode to craft

But that would never do given the mores of the era named after her--until her beloved husband Albert hits on a solution: a covered wooden cart with an undressing room that can be rolled into the sea

Overbuilt: The High Costs and Low Rewards of Us Highway Construction by Erick Guerra Marble City Press illustrated James RansomeThe world's largest public works investment visible from space, the Interstate Highway System and the hundreds of thousands of miles of supporting roadways, are frequently hailed as a marvel and triumph of engineering. President Eisenhower's 1956 Interstate Highway Act is often praised as a model of successful bipartisanship. Today, the extensive damage wreaked by the creation of the highway system and the ills of car dependency are more widely