NYT review of new Petroski infrastructure book

[Pete from Boston]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/books/review/the-road-taken-by-henry-petroski.html

THE ROAD TAKEN
The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
By Henry Petroski
Illustrated. 322 pp. Bloomsbury. $28.

Henry Petroski's "The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure"  is really two books in one. It is, first, a history of infrastructure from the Appian Way to the present. It also promises to be a guide for the present, helping us "better understand what is involved in making key choices that we are faced with today."  The book intermittently succeeds in both guises, though it takes some detours along the way.

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