That is my parents’ hometown, my grandparents and all the extended family. I was surprised to find the road went through Mansfield, Ohio. Sometime in the 1920s the highway system switched to numbers instead of names, it is mostly US 30, so maybe that is how the name Lincoln Highway became a footnote. As in previous books, Wallis takes the highway state by state through the heartland of the US exploring the restaurants, turns and twists of the road and its history. The Lincoln stretches across the northern USA and though it is ‘The Father’ of the US highway system I daresay, no one has ever heard of it.Īppropriately, co-author Mike Wallis takes on the task of telling us about this highway, he is also the author of the popular ‘Route 66: The Mother Road”.

The Lincoln Highway is the Route 66 before Route 66 was Route 66. Williamson, this ode to a bygone era guides us across the true spine of the country, exploring vintage diners, Art Deco buildings, and funky roadside attractions, all waiting to be discovered. With hundreds of new and rare photographs provided by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Michael S. Once a symbol of limitless potential, it is now undergoing (as Route 66 did twenty years ago) a miraculous revival. It was the road of Gettysburg, Pretty Boy Floyd, Notre Dame, the Great Salt Lake, and the Gold Rush Trail. It was a magnificent and meandering road that enticed millions of newly motoring Americans to hop into their Model Ts and explore the fading frontier.

It began in 1913 with a glorious new highway―stretching across 3,389 miles and 13 states―that connected the bright lights of Broadway with the foggy shores of San Francisco. Bursting with life, charm, richly imagined settings and unforgettable characters, The Lincoln Highway is an extraordinary journey through 1950s America from the pen of a master storyteller.The best-selling author of Route 66 and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer celebrate America's first transcontinental highway in all its neon glory. They have a very different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take the four of them on a fateful journey in the opposite direction - to New York City. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter.With his mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett plans to pick up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head to California to start a new life.But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have stowed away in the trunk of the warden's car. Two brothers venture across 1950s America to New York in the absorbing new novel by the author of the bestselling A Gentleman in Moscow.

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