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"""In this deeply researched and engagingly written book, Troy University-Dothan historian Martin T. Olliff examines the myriad obstacles encountered by good roads advocates as they sought, in his words, to pull Alabamians out of the mud."" --Alabama Review ""Olliff weaves a unique combination of history, sociology, political science, and economics to create a three-dimensional fabric."" --David O. Whitten, author of Andrew Durnford: A Black Sugar Planter in the Antebellum South and coauthor of The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860-1914: Commercial, Extractive, and Industrial Enterprise"

In this deeply researched and engagingly written book, Troy University-Dothan historian Martin T. Olliff examines the myriad obstacles encountered by good roads advocates as they sought, in his words, to pull Alabamians out of the mud. --Alabama Review Olliff weaves a unique combination of history, sociology, political science, and economics to create a three-dimensional fabric. --David O. Whitten, author of Andrew Durnford: A Black Sugar Planter in the Antebellum South and coauthor of The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860-1914: Commercial, Extractive, and Industrial Enterprise

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Martin T. Olliff is a professor of history and the director of the Wiregrass Archives at Troy University Dothan Campus. He is also the editor of The Great War in the Heart of Dixie: Alabama in World War I and an editorial board member of both The Alabama Review: A Quarterly Journal of Alabama History and Provenance: Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists.

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