The Valley and Its People: A Portrait Of TVA
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Hardcover. 8vo. Very Good / Very Good. Item #005353
Quarter green cloth, pictorial paper boards. 167 pp. B&W photos throughout. Sunning to top and tail edges. Rubbing to tail edge. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. Dust jacket darkened and bumped to extremities, chips to top edge. TVA Pre-fabricated house plans laid in. Here, in a happy collaboration of compact text and nearly one hundred superb photographs, is told the story of the nation's first great experiment in rebuilding by the stimulus of public enterprise a region laid waste by decades of exploitation. By partisans and critics of the new Deal alike, the achievements of the Tennessee Valley Authority have been summed up as the one incontestably solid pre-war accomplishment of the Roosevelt Administration.
Price: $50.00