Public Versus Private Power During the Truman Administration: A Study of Fair Deal Liberalism

by Phyliss Komarek de Luna

Public versus Private Power during the Truman Administration offers the first thorough historical analysis of one of the most contentious aspects of the Fair Deal - President Harry S. Truman's electric power policies. In 1948, Truman championed as part of his liberal program a major expansion of public power. De Luna shows how these plans were adulterated by a powerful combination of forces: the opposition of private power, discord among agencies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820431443
• ISBN13: 9780820431444
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 253 Pages