a sweeping, investigative history of the building of the road connecting Manhattan to the rest of the country. At the dawn of America's love affair with the automobile, cars and trucks leaving the nation's largest city were unceremoniously dumped out of the western end of the Holland Tunnel onto local roads wending their way through the New Jersey Meadowlands. Jersey City mayor Frank Hague--dictator of the Hudson County political machine and a national political player--was a prime mover behind the building of the country's ...
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a sweeping, investigative history of the building of the road connecting Manhattan to the rest of the country. At the dawn of America's love affair with the automobile, cars and trucks leaving the nation's largest city were unceremoniously dumped out of the western end of the Holland Tunnel onto local roads wending their way through the New Jersey Meadowlands. Jersey City mayor Frank Hague--dictator of the Hudson County political machine and a national political player--was a prime mover behind the building of the country's first superhighway, designed to connect the hub of New York City to the United States of America. Hague's nemesis in this undertaking was union boss Teddy Brandle, and construction of the last three miles of Route 25, later dubbed the Pulaski Skyway, marked an epic battle between big labor and big politics, culminating in a murder...
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Fine in fine jacket. First editon, first printing. Fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 216 pp. with bibliography, index. Fascinating, sweeping, investagative look at anew kind of highway constructed amid an old kind of politics. With the 1927 opening of the Holland Tunnell beneath the Hudson River. flood of cars and trucks leaving Manhattan were dumped into the narrow streets of Jersey City on their way to points west. The answer to the problem was to create America's first superhighway, a $40 million project. It was backed by Frank Hague, one of the most powerful political bosses of his day and by 1930, all but the last three miles of it had been built (the section now known as the Pulaski Skyway). A vicious labor war ensued, pitting Hague against a former ally, union boss Teddy Brandle, and led to a sensational murder trial. When the Skyway opened in 1932, its design proved so flawed that newspapers called it "Death Avenue"
Add this copy of The Last Three Miles: Politics, Murder, and the to cart. $43.75, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by New Press, The.
Add this copy of The Last Three Miles: Politics, Murder, and the to cart. $77.46, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by New Press, The.
