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Lincoln Highway: Main Street Across America, a Tenth Aniversary Edition (Anniversary)
Lincoln Highway: Main Street Across America, a Tenth Aniversary Edition (Anniversary) | Drake Hokanson
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Ten years after its original publication, Drake Hokanson's best-selling book continues to inspire readers to leave the interstate for a road less traveled, but one that still fuels the American preoccupation with the open road.In his new introduction to this tenth anniversary edition, Hokanson revisits the Lincoln Highway and finds it changed--much for the better--since the original publication of this book. Most notably, he calls attention to the reinvigorated Lincoln Highway Association and its efforts to preserve what is left of the old road. Hokanson finds more and more tourists traveling the road--not only Americans but foreigners as well--by car, bus, and motorcycle on journeys not to any particular destination, but simply to see America.
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No, it‘s not THAT Lincoln Highway. This book tells the history of the Lincoln Highway, from Carl Fisher‘s 1912 idea for a transcontinental road, through Henry Joy‘s 1913 plan for the road, including tales of early adventurers on the road, which in areas was little more than a muddy cow path or a vague idea, to the burial of large sections under I-80. Pleasantly and lovingly presented as a nostalgic trip along The Lincoln Highway.