{"product_id":"the-longest-line-on-the-map-the-united-states-the-pan-american-highway-and-the-quest-to-link-the-americas-9781501103919","title":"The Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe brilliant, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Canopy\u003c\/i\u003e presents a dazzling account of the epic quest to link North and South America with the world's longest road--the Pan American Highway--and how its construction and evolution reflected the divergent fates of North, Central, and South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Pan-American Highway is the longest road in the world, running the length of the Western Hemisphere from Prudhoe Bay in Alaska to Tierra del Fuego in South America. It represents a dream of friendship, commerce, mobility, of the Americas united. Our collective imaginations have been forged along its path: Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara, the iconic Argentine revolutionary, traveled it northward in \u003ci\u003eThe Motorcycle Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e; Jack Kerouac, the voice of the beat generation, followed it southward in \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e. Many adventurers have journeyed the highway's distance, but the road itself still remains shrouded in mystery. Why was it built? And why does it remain unfinished, with a sixty-mile long break, the famed Darien Gap, enduring between Panama and Colombia? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Eric Rutkow's \"richly detailed examination of efforts to build a highway from Alaska to the tip of Argentina... this] fresh, well-documented account\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e) chronicles the full story of the highway's long, winding path to construction, which reshaped foreign policy, cost US taxpayers a billion dollars, consumed countless lives over a 150-year period, and changed the destinies of two continents. Fully illustrated with photographs, documents, and maps, \u003ci\u003eThe Longest Line on the Map\u003c\/i\u003e offers readers a bird's eye view of the incredible highway that snakes through more than a century's worth of US and Latin American history, ending in a triumphant ideology that insists the Americas share a common destiny and mutual interests.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501103919\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.30d","brand":"Eric Rutkow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36654797029532,"sku":"9781501103919","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_7890207e-22d9-4172-93fb-3baf534f62cd.jpg?v=1603884110","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-longest-line-on-the-map-the-united-states-the-pan-american-highway-and-the-quest-to-link-the-americas-9781501103919","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}