Power and the public interest
Subtitle: the memoirs of Joseph C. Swidler
By: foreword by Lee White ; edited and annotated by A. Scott Henderson.
Contributors: Henderson, A. Scott.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Swidler, Joseph C. 1907-; Tennessee Valley Authority -- Officials and employees -- Biography; United States. Federal Power Commission -- Officials and employees -- Biography; New York (State). Public Service Commission -- Officials and employees -- Biography; Energy policy -- United States -- History; Power resources -- Government policy -- United States -- History
Description: "Joseph Swidler (1907-1997) was one of the last New Dealers, part of a generation of talented professionals - including Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, and Wilbur Cohen - who devoted their energies to serving public, not private interests. In a career spanning six decades, he helped craft and administer the nation's energy policy while witnessing most of the signal events of the modern age: the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and America's emergence as a superpower.

Swidler's memoir is filled with insights on this transformative period of U.S. history and includes anecdotes about key historical figures, among them David E. Lilienthal, Harold Ickes, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Nelson Rockefeller."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-264) and index.