The Cautionary Tale of the TVA: I

1. The Legend of the TVA--A "Democratic" Answer to Totalitarian Social Planners
2. Origins of the TVA
   1. The River Basin as a Region
      1. Coordinated, Multi-use Development of Water
      2. Flood and Drought Control
   2. Regional Planning in Individualistic America?
      1. Previous Practice--Piecemeal, Single-Use Development
      2. Lack of Opportunity in Developed East, EXCEPT in
      3. The Tennessee Valley
         1. Lack of Previous Development
         2. Environmental Devastation
         3. A Federal Toehold--Muscle Shoals, AL
   3. The Muscle Shoals Controversy
      1. Federal Development, World War I
      2. The Postwar Bidding War
         1. Alabama Power Company
         2. Henry Ford
         3. American Cyanamid
   4. An Emerging Alternative--George M. Norris and Public Development of Tennessee Basin
   5. The Vision Gets Broader--Franklin D. Roosevelt
   6. Initial Conception--A Government Agency With the Freedom of a Private Business
3. The Ideal of Regional Reconstruction
   1. The Bankruptcy of Urban-Industrial Society
   2. Southern Regionalism--The Vanderbilt Agrarians and the Chapel Hill Regionalists
   3. Appalachian Regionalism--John C. Campbell and the Folk-School Movement--The Southern Highlander and His Homeland