California’s Rise and Fall, From One Gov. Brown to Another
On a recent drive from the East Coast back home to California, I found myself thinking about four men. The first was President Dwight Eisenhower, who championed the notion of continental superhighways before signing, in 1956, the law that authorized the Interstate Highway System. It reflected an American passion for the open road, as symbolized in popular culture by the ad jingle “See the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet” and Jack Kerouac’s novel “On the Road,” written in 1951.
The second man was Wallace Libby Hardison. In 1870s…
Source: California’s Rise and Fall, From One Gov. Brown to Another – WSJ