Books
August, 1986
The Highway is more indisputably American than just about anything else—even television. The road, as a pure physical fact, is immense. The concrete poured into the interstate system would cover West Virginia. As an economic fact, the highway looms even larger. It props up the automobile business, the oil business, an incalculable proportion of the fast-food business, motels, the tire business, bumper-sticker production, Lee Iacocca's book, car washes, insurance and who knows what else. The road...
