The National Road

Timed for America’s 250th anniversary, The National Road is the dramatic story of how a fragile new republic forged unity through ambition and action, fueled by George Washington’s youthful dream to build the United States’ first highway west and paving the way for the growth of a nation of unmatched liberty and possibility. Spanning the 1750s, decades before the nation itself was born, through the 1830s, The National Road is the first narrative history of the ambitious federal project that conn