The National Road: George Washington and America's First Highway West

The National Roadis the first narrative history of the federal project-begun decades before the nation itself was born and ranging through the 1830s-that connected the United States across the Alleghenies and into the western frontier. Starting with a young Washington's dream of uniting the Potomac and Ohio Rivers, historian Brady J. Crytzer recounts the political debates, personal rivalries, and engineering marvels that culminated in an artery that brought settlers, ideas, and commerce int...