{"id":95453,"date":"2019-03-19T11:01:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T15:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=95453"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:40:26","slug":"history-professors-new-book-pan-american-highway-receives-national-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/history-professors-new-book-pan-american-highway-receives-national-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"History Professor’s New Book About Pan-American Highway Receives National Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"

麻豆原创 History<\/a> assistant professor Eric Rutkow aims high and his work is paying off. Rutkow is a Harvard Law School graduate, has a doctorate from Yale, and is an author whose first book was praised by Oprah Winfrey. Along with being chosen for Oprah.com\u2019s 2012 Book Club Selection, his book American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation <\/em>received the Association of American Publisher\u2019s PROSE award for U.S. history.<\/p>\n

Now, he has published his second book, The Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas<\/em>, which explores the little-known history of the longest road in the world.<\/p>\n

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