TVA and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam Area

by Michael J. McDonald and John Muldowny

One of the most notable agencies of the New Deal era, the Tennessee Valley Authority was created with a warrant to plan for the socioeconomic improvement of "forgotten" Americans. The construction of the Norris Dam, it was thought, would benefit the region socially as well as economically. This book analyzes and assesses TVA's social experiment in modernization at the grassroots level, using population removal in the Norris Basin as a test case.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870493450
• ISBN13: 9780870493454
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.