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New Yorker contributor and decade-long staffer Matt Dellinger uses the controversy adjoining Interstate 69 as a zoom lens through which to examine middle America's current politics, social, and economic scenery, including hot-button issues like NAFTA and the country's troubled infrastructure. If completed, I-69 will extend from Canada to Mexico through Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tx. In the works for more than twenty years, the highway has been both eagerly anticipated as an economic godsend and the guts of an firestorm of protests by local environmentalists, farmers, ranchers, anarchists, and others who question both wisdom of building more highways and the merits of globalization. Part background, part travelogue, Interstate 69 chronicles the last great highway task in America, presenting the individuals who have worked tirelessly to construct it or stop it from being built, and the many places it would change forever.
