“Paull’s surgical dissection of the 40-year battle produces a book that is essential for understanding today’s Baltimore and the many other American cities which experienced similar highway wars.” Antero Pietila, author of Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City.

Ev Paull masterfully documents the untold story… His book is at once scholarly journal, urban history and personal observation, while highlighting individual accounts of “ordinary people doing extraordinary things…” William F. Zorzi, former journalist, The Baltimore Sun and Writer, The Wire and We Own This City 

“It was people, not politicians, who stood up and saved Baltimore from the ravages of the East-West Expressway. Evans Paull has found many of these courageous people, the folks who resisted, persisted, and incredibly prevailed. He has made their ‘highway stories’ a compelling human history of the challenges that faced post-war urban America.” Mark Reutter, Senior Editor, Baltimore Brew and author, Making Steel: Sparrows Point and the Rise and Ruin of American Industrial Might. 

Paull’s marvelously detailed work provides an instructive example of how different groups, race, ethnicity, and education came together for a common goal—to stop something that was destroying the fabric and essence of a community. This is sorely lacking in many ways today.  Philip J. Merrill, Co-founder & EOA, Nanny Jack and Company, LLC and author, Old West Baltimore (Images of America)

“Stop the Road is an engrossing saga of Baltimore, not just because the events depicted are so significant for our city, but also because the history is enlivened by in person storytelling. You will marvel how this combination of community activists, preservationists, and environmental advocates gained the upper hand over the road building establishment.” M.J. (“Jay”) Brodie, former Baltimore Housing Commissioner and President of Baltimore Development Corporation.