Research Catalog

Title

TVA, fifty years of grass-roots bureaucracy / edited by Erwin C. Hargrove and Paul K. Conkin.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1983], ©1983.

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Additional Authors

• Hargrove, Erwin C.
• Conkin, Paul Keith.
• Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies.

Description

xvii, 345 pages; 24 cm

Alternative Title

T.V.A., fifty years of grass-roots bureaucracy.

Subjects

• Electric utilities > Tennessee River Valley > Congresses
• Water resources development > Tennessee River Valley > Congresses
• Electric power > Tennessee River Valley > Congresses
• Tennessee Valley Authority Congresses

Note

• Based on a symposium held at Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies during Dec. 1981.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Erwin C. Hargrove -- Intellectual and political roots / Paul K. Conkin -- The TVA, 1933-45 / Richard Lowitt -- The TVA, 1945-80 / Wilmon H. Droze -- The task of leadership / Erwin C. Hargrove -- Administrative management and political accountability / Avery Leiserson -- The TVA and regional development / Vernon W. Ruttan -- The "new mission" and the Tellico Project, 1945-70 / William Bruce Wheeler and Michael J. McDonald -- The TVA, the courts, and the public interest / Dean Hill Rivkin -- New seeds at the grassroots / Richard A. Couto -- The Valley Authority idea / Crauford D. Goodwin -- Images of TVA / William C. Havard, Jr. -- TVA and the ambiguity of American reform / Dewey W. Grantham.

ISBN

0252010868

LCCN

83006475

OCLC

• 9465808
• ocm09465808

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries