Review of Divided Highways, by Tom Lewis — and some thoughts on techno-utopian disillusionment

Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life, by Tom Lewis (2013), tells the history of how the US Interstate Highway System (IHS) was built. This monumental project, initiated in 1956 under President Eisenhower, spanned decades and multiple administrations before finally reaching completion in 1992. The project encompassed over 46,000 miles of roadways, a network longer than the circumference of the Earth. The final cost, adjusted for inflation, was more than $600 billion.