...Charles Richard Sanders The Tennessee . Vol. II: The New River: Civil War to TVA . By Davidson Donald . New York and Toronto : Rinehart and Company , 1948 . Pp. viii , 377 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 164 The South Atlantic Quarterly prospective...

...William R. Childs TVA: Fifty Years of Grass-Roots Bureaucracy . Edited by Hargrove Edwin C. Conkin Paul K. . Champaign : The University of Illinois Press , 1984 . Pp. ix , 345 . $24.95 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 336 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

... the Middle West, the Far West, and Florida. Last year (1948), for example, users of TVA power expended $ 50,000,000 in the purchase of electric ranges, water heaters, washing machines, and refrigerators. In the same fiscal year the TVA spent over $530,000,000 for such items as generators, raw materials...

... Uneeda Review . Edited by J. Schimmelpfennig Parkhurst . New York : Nick Lyons Books , 1984 . Pp. 119 . $9.97 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Book Reviews 337 presentations appear in part 4, TVA and American Democracy. There, Craufurd D. Goodwin examines...

... and all fuels should have to meet the same standards. I am personally involved in an ongoing program to provide adequate environmental controls for the TVA power-generating facilities. The capital costs here will total several hundred million dollars, and they will represent a substantial item which...

..., the Anti-Injunction Law, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. While he devotes but two chapters wholly to the TVA, it is apparent that this is the triumph from which he got most satisfaction. He reviews clearly, though briefly, the purposes, the struggles, and the results to date of the TVA, presenting...

... without apology. The three great achievements of George W. Norris are the Lame Duck amendment to the Constitution, the Anti-Injunction Law, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. While he devotes but two chapters wholly to the TVA, it is apparent that this is the triumph from which he got most satisfaction...

... great, the reader may be willing to forgive the author for some opinions which, even to this reviewer, whose people for generations have lived in Middle Tennessee, seem odd, to say the least. Why does Professor Davidson feel compelled to attack nonTennesseeans on the TVA staff? Why does he seek...

.... If the farmer and woodsman have been eased out to preserve the scenic beauty of the Smokies, and the revenue officers have made it unpleasant for other denizens of the hills, or the TVA has uprooted prosperous valley farmers, they may find employment and 398 The South Atlantic Quarterly a different, perhaps...

... Southern farmers favored compulsory regulation of the cotton crop. Franklin Roosevelt was headed toward TVA where he de­ clared, with less than his usual exuberance, that it remains to be seen whether the TVA can attack the fundamental poverty of the mass of people in the region who find even the cheapest...

... against decadence. Whatever the answers are to these problems of origins, the serious student of drama and the enthusiastic patron of the theater can find much valuable and stimulating material in Revolution in Modern Drama. Marie A. Updike White. The Tennessee. Vol. II: The New River: Civil War to TVA...

... at Muscle Shoals, the recommendation of an extensive system of TVA-owned demonstration forests, and the thwarted Dixon-Yates contract for nuclear power production. The Politics of Conserva­ tion is one of the most informative and interesting books of its kind to appear. People interested in conservation...

... such as the offer of Henry Ford to acquire the nitrate properties at Muscle Shoals, the recommendation of an extensive system of TVA-owned demonstration forests, and the thwarted Dixon-Yates contract for nuclear power production. The Politics of Conserva­ tion is one of the most informative and interesting books...

... of the theater can find much valuable and stimulating material in Revolution in Modern Drama. Marie A. Updike White. The Tennessee. Vol. II: The New River: Civil War to TVA. By Donald Davidson. New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Company, 1948. Pp. viii, 377. $3.50. Professor Davidson loves the Tennessee River...

... and XIX, and the Fugitive-Agrarians are given additional lengthy dis­ cussion in Chapter XVII. Also, and without questioning the primacy of the intellectual over the material, one cannot help but ponder over the wisdom of devoting a great deal more space and attention to the Fugitive-Agrarians than to TVA...

... and a corre­ sponding skepticism about the value of many that came to replace them. On the eve of the final subjugation of the Tennessee he wrote, for the last pages of volume two, an elegy on the wild and beautiful glo­ ries of his beloved river, now buried and almost forgotten beneath the splendors of TVA...

... to preserve the scenic beauty of the Smokies, and the revenue officers have made it unpleasant for other denizens of the hills, or the TVA has uprooted prosperous valley farmers, they may find employment and Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Three Years with Grant. As Recalled by War...

... history, from the Cherokee Indian to George Vanderbilt and his $5,000,000 mansion (before inflation), from Davy Crockett to Tom Wolfe, both spinners of tales, and from the wearers of the Blue and the Gray (a war within a war) to Oak Ridge and TVA. Fortunately, the author of this new volume in the Rivers...

... Court undermined the constitutional bases of the New Deal; and the fourth describes the election of 1936. More than in Volume II, Schlesinger keeps within the chronological limits of the volume. However, he carries the stories of TVA and REA to 1938; and when one arrives at the points where a discussion...

... on economic growth by en­ couraging thousands of small, inefficient farmers to cling to their small farms instead of switching to more productive lines of work. The TVA was supposed to be one of the federal government s main contributions to stimulating the economy of the South. The benefits...