Title: Power and the public interest
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.
Subjects: Biography, Energy policy, Government policy, History, New York (State), New York (State). Public Service Commission, Officials and employees, Power resources, Tennessee Valley Authority, United States, United States. Federal Power Commission, United states, federal power commission, Energy policy, united states
Places: United States
People: Joseph C. Swidler (1907-)