Ike's Road Trip

Préface

Marketing/publicity will focus both on national as well as regional coverage in the cities and states where the convoy passed through.

The convoy drove over 3,000 miles on the historic Lincoln Highway from Washington, D.C., to Oakland, California and then by ferry to San Francisco. Key stops included Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Canton, Ohio; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Chicago, Illinois; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Omaha, Nebraska; Laramie, Wyoming; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Carson City, Nevada.

Radio tour, targeting cities the convoy passed through. 

Author is both an historian and environmentalist which makes him uniquely qualified to tell this story and to place it within a contemporary context.

ARC available: May 2024

Auteur

Dr. Brian C. Black is Distinguished Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Penn State Altoona, where he also served for over a decade as Head of Arts and Humanities. Recognized as a global expert on energy and petroleum history, he is the author of more than a dozen books, which include: Petrolia: The Landscape of America’s First Oil Boom; Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History; and To Have and Have Not: Energy in World History. His writing on energy has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, USA TODAY, the Conversation, and the New York Times. He divides his time between central Pennsylvania and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Texte du rabat

"All roads begin somewhere, and today's U. S. highway system began with an exploratory, cross-country ride led by 28-year-old Army lieutenant colonel Dwight Eisenhower. This is the story of that coast-to-coast journey and how the dream of connecting America with roads began . . . The 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy of eighty-one trucks and other military vehicles traveled more than 3,000 precarious miles along the most famous road of the day, the Lincoln Highway, which ran between New York City and San Francisco. World War I had illustrated the importance of being able to move large amounts of troops and equipment quickly over long distances, and Eisenhower's mission was to evaluate whether the country's emerging network of paved roadways could handle such a task. It was an experience Eisenhower would never forget."--