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In the tradition of Robert Caro's The Power Broker, a sweeping, investigative history of the building of the road attaching Manhattan to all of those other country.
At the dawn of America's romance with the automobile, cars and trucks leaving the nation's greatest city were unceremoniously dumped out of the american end of the Holland Tunnel onto local roads wending their way through the New Shirt Meadowlands.
Shirt City mayor Frank Hague—dictator of the Hudson County political machine and a nationwide political player—was a leading mover behind the building of the country's first "superhighway," made to connect the hub of NEW YORK to america of America. Hague's nemesis in this starting was union manager Teddy Brandle, and building of the previous three kilometers of Road 25, later dubbed the Pulaski Skyway, marked an epic fight between big labor and big politics, culminating in a murder and the creation of an motorway so flawed it soon became known as "Fatality Avenue" —now properly presented in the opening series of the reach HBO series The Sopranos.
A booklet in the tradition of Robert Caro's The Power Broker and Henry Petroski's Engineers of Dreams, The Last Three Miles brings to stunning life the riveting and bloodstained again story of a remarkable chapter in the heroic get older of open public works.
