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Книга по требованию: The Conservation Fight

Товар № 11196031

From Theodore Roosevelt to the Tennessee Valley Authority (Classic Reprint)

Вес: 0.56 кг.
Год издания: 2015
Страниц: 352 Переплет: мягкая обложка
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Excerpt from The Conservation Fight: From Theodore Roosevelt to the Tennessee Valley Authority

"Here is history, authentic history, of a crucial period in American life and politics that has all the challenge and charm of drama, written by a leading actor in the drama. Here is the intimate story, by a participant, of how TVA ... came into being.

"Judson King knew all the actors in the mighty TVA drama which started with the conservation movement in Teddy Roosevelt's day... His interest in popular government led him ultimately to the directorship of the National Popular Government League, established under the leadership of George Norris and Gifford Pinchot. One of the earliest interests of the League was establishment of initiative and referendum in each of the states.

"Deeply concerned with popular control of America's natural resources, Judson King saw the potentialities for abundant, cheap hydroelectric power, combined with flood control, to serve citizens free from exploitation. The waste of waters of our swift rivers rushing to the sea without passing through turbines to generate low-cost electricity for our people - power unused in this age of science - was unendurable to him. Every fibre within him rebelled against such injustice to the public interest, whether it expressed itself in unsavory political practice, locally or nationally, or in some form of restrictive monopoly.

"In this book, Judson King brings back to life for a new generation many episodes in the conservation movement and the fight for TVA, including the Federal Trade Commission inquiry into the nefarious practices of the private utilities which brought reforms in the 1930's... He pays his respects to the Corps of Army Engineers, too, and tells us the story of their opposition to the high dam development which became the core of cheap electric power...

"More than a history of the birth pains of TVA, important as that is, this book is a history of a free people's fight to maintain control of one of their own natural resources, the waters of a great river system, to assure themselves and their posterity a better life.

"Built by one generation, TVA and the conservation principles it represents must be cherished and preserved by another. Judson King has shown the way." - Benton J. Stong in the Foreword.

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