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Arthur Morgan
Aaron D. Purcell
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Description for Arthur Morgan
Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: B; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 712.
On May 19, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the appointment of Arthur Morgan (1878–1975), a water-control engineer and college president from Ohio, as the chairman of the newly created Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). With the eyes of the nation focused on the reform and recovery promised by the New Deal, Morgan remained in the national spotlight for much of the 1930s, as his visionary plans for the TVA drew both support and criticism. In this thoughtful biography, Aaron D. Purcell reassesses Morgan’s long life and career and provides the first detailed account of his post-TVA activities and fascination with ... Read more
On May 19, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the appointment of Arthur Morgan (1878–1975), a water-control engineer and college president from Ohio, as the chairman of the newly created Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). With the eyes of the nation focused on the reform and recovery promised by the New Deal, Morgan remained in the national spotlight for much of the 1930s, as his visionary plans for the TVA drew both support and criticism. In this thoughtful biography, Aaron D. Purcell reassesses Morgan’s long life and career and provides the first detailed account of his post-TVA activities and fascination with ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Tennessee Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781621900580
SKU
V9781621900580
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About Aaron D. Purcell
Aaron D. Purcell is director of special collections at Virginia Tech, USA. He is the author of White Collar Radicals: TVA’s Knoxville Fifteen, the New Deal, and the McCarthy Era and Academic Archives: Managing the Next Generation of College and University Archives, Records, and Special Collections. His articles have appeared in the American Archivist, the Journal of East Tennessee History, ... Read more
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