A year after Fisher opened his store, the league launched a magazine, Good Roads, that became an influential mouthpiece for road improvement.

“Cyclists thus found their hobby not as pleasant as it could be, to say the least, and the League of American Wheelmen committed to doing something about it.

He lives in the Blue Ridge mountains west of Charlottesville.more Since 2012 he's been a fellow of Virginia Humanities at the University of Virginia. Blair, 2017), an insider's account of Dollar Tree's rise from loopy idea to retail juggernaut. He also co-authored, with Macon Brock, ONE BUCK AT A TIME (Beachnut/John F. highway system and its effects, physical and cultural, on the nation it binds JOURNEY ON THE JAMES (University of Virginia Press, 2001), about a great American river and the largely untold history that has unfolded in and around it WHERE THEY LAY (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), for which he accompanied an Army archaeological team into the jungles of Laos in search of a helicopter crew shot down thirty years before and a 2007 collection of his stories, THE TANGIERMAN'S LAMENT (UVa Press). He is also the author of seven other books, among them the New York Times best seller CHESAPEAKE REQUIEM (HarperCollins, 2018), the story of an island town threatened with extinction by the very water that has sustained it for 240 years AUTO BIOGRAPHY (HarperCollins, 2014), a narrative journey through postwar America told through a single old car and the fourteen people who've owned it THE BIG ROADS (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), an armchair history of the U.S. highway system and its effects, physical and cultural, on the nation it binds JOURNEY ON T Longtime journalist Earl Swift is the author of the forthcoming ACROSS THE AIRLESS WILDS: THE LUNAR ROVER AND THE TRIUMPH OF THE FINAL MOON LANDINGS, due from HarperCollins in July 2021.

Longtime journalist Earl Swift is the author of the forthcoming ACROSS THE AIRLESS WILDS: THE LUNAR ROVER AND THE TRIUMPH OF THE FINAL MOON LANDINGS, due from HarperCollins in July 2021.

Chesapeake Requiem by Earl Swift