TVA, fifty years of grass-roots bureaucracy
By: edited by Erwin C. Hargrove and Paul K. Conkin.
Contributors: Hargrove, Erwin C.; Conkin, Paul Keith.; Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Tennessee Valley Authority -- Congresses.; Electric utilities -- Tennessee River Valley -- Congresses.; Electric power -- Tennessee River Valley -- Congresses.; Water resources development -- Tennessee River Valley -- Congresses.
Other titles: T.V.A., fifty years of grass-roots bureaucracy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on a symposium held at Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies during Dec. 1981.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Erwin C. Hargrove; title: Intellectual and political roots / Paul K. Conkin; title: The TVA, 1933-45 / Richard Lowitt; title: The TVA, 1945-80 / Wilmon H. Droze; title: The task of leadership / Erwin C. Hargrove; title: Administrative management and political accountability / Avery Leiserson; title: The TVA and regional development / Vernon W. Ruttan; title: The "new mission" and the Tellico Project, 1945-70 / William Bruce Wheeler and Michael J. McDonald; title: The TVA, the courts, and the public interest / Dean Hill Rivkin; title: New seeds at the grassroots / Richard A. Couto; title: The Valley Authority idea / Crauford D. Goodwin; title: Images of TVA / William C. Havard, Jr.; title: TVA and the ambiguity of American reform / Dewey W. Grantham.