TVA and the Tellico Dam: A Bureaucratic Crisis in Post-Industrial America

By William Bruce Wheeler

Book Overview

This is a study of TVA management of Tellico Dam. Part of the ambitious New Deal project to bring modernity to Appalachia, TVA planning was far-reaching, often far-sighted, but also controversial, involving mass migration of people from their ancestral homes and threats to species, like the snail darter.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572333707
• ISBN13: 9781572333703
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"