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

by William Bruce Wheeler (Author), Michael J. McDonald (Contribution by)

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.

Author Biography

William Bruce Wheeler is retired history professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the author of Knoxville, Tennessee: A Mountain City in the New South, third edition.

Michael McDonald was a professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the coauthor of TVA and the Dispossessed.