The Tennessee Valley Authority: Design and Persuasion

by Tim Culvahouse and Christine Macy

In the wake of the Great Depression, one of Franklin Roosevelt's most successful New Deal programs was the formation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, a federal governmentowned corporation created in 1933 to revitalize the Tennessee River Valley. The TVA provided navigation, flood control, electricity generation, strategic materials for national defense, economic development, unemployment relief, and an overall improvement of living conditions in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156898684X
• ISBN13: 9781568986845
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 10.1"