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Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History
The most visited site in the National Park system, the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway winds along the ridges of the Appalachian mountains in Virginia and North Carolina. According to most accounts, the Parkway was a New Deal "Godsend for the needy," built without conflict or opposition by landscape architects and planners who traced their vision along a scenic, isolated southern landscape. The historical archives relating to this massive public project, however, tell a different and much more complicated story, which Anne Mitchell Whisnant relates in this revealing history of the beloved roadway.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
- Publish Date: Mar 1st, 2010
- Pages: 464
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.24in - 6.38in - 1.12in - 1.48lb
- EAN: 9780807871263
- Categories: • United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,• United States - 20th Century• United States - South - South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD,
About the Author
Whisnant, Anne Mitchell: - Anne Mitchell Whisnant received her Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is now Director of Research, Communications, and Programs for the Office of Faculty Governance. She has served as a consultant to the National Park Service and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation. More information about the book is available online at www.superscenic.com.
Praise for this book
Brilliantly researched and stylishly written. . . . Readers can rest assured this enormous book packs a wallop.--Appalachian Heritage
Historian Anne Mitchell Whisnant's Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History is a must-read for anyone who frequents the mountains.--Durham Herald-Sun
By sifting through various myths and facts, Whisnant reveals the truth behind the Parkway's seemingly undisturbed serene beauty.--Sanford Herald
[A] lucid analysis. . . . [Whisnant's] work provides vital lessons on historic and environmental preservation.--The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Exhaustively researched...fascinating--Rocky Mount Telegram
The book strips away decades of such myth-making fostered by tourism officials and the park service and details the social, economic, and political battles that shaped a two-lane road that is the most visited place managed by the park service.--Raleigh News & Observer
Elegantly reveals the Parkway's history. . . . Decidedly revisionist . . . presents a more complex history of the road. . . . Whisnant's engagingly written and carefully researched account brings to light a more accurate picture of how the Blue Ridge Parkway came to be while taking nothing away from the . . . site.--Appalachian Journal
This well-documented and well-researched study, often presented in strident style, provides a new perspective on the parkway's creation. . . . Super-Scenic Motorway's invaluable documentation will help readers better understand the parkway's complex development.--North Carolina Historical Review
Whisnant brings the true parkway to light in a skillful demonstration of the historian's craft at the highest level of excellence--thoroughly researched, especially well documented and presented. . . . Highly recommended.--Choice
The deliberate, scholarly work promises, in the author's words, to 'take us from a place many think they understand to one few would recognize, along a Blue Ridge Parkway almost no one knows.' Strap in and hold tight." --Mountain Xpress