Super-scenic Motorway A Blue Ridge Parkway History

The most visited park in the National Parks system, the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway winds along the ridges of the Appalachian mountains in Virginia and North Carolina. According to popular myth, the Parkway was a New Deal "Godsend for the needy," built without conflict or opposition by landscape architects and planners who traced their uniform vision along a scenic, isolated southern landscape. The historical archives relating to this massive public project, however, tell a different story, which Anne Mitchell Whisnant relates in this history of the seventy-year development of the beloved roadway.Whisnant, Anne Mitchell is the author of 'Super-scenic Motorway A Blue Ridge Parkway History', published 2006 under ISBN 9780807830376 and ISBN 0807830372.