Electric City 1st Edition by Thomas Hager 9781647000448 1647000440

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• ISBN 10: 1647000440
• ISBN 13:  9781647000448
• Author: Thomas Hager

During the roaring twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country’s poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s “Detroit of the South” would be ten times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy, and free of air pollution. And it would reshape American society, introducing mass commuting by car, use a new kind of currency called “energy dollars,” and have the added benefit (from Ford and Edison’s view) of crippling the growth of socialism.
The whole audacious scheme almost came off, with Southerners rallying to support what became known as the Ford Plan. But while some saw it as a way to conjure the future and reinvent the South, others saw it as one of the biggest land swindles of all time. They were all true.
Electric City is a rich chronicle of the time and the social backdrop, and offers a fresh look at the lives of the two men who almost saw the project to fruition, the forces that came to oppose them, and what rose in its stead: a new kind of public corporation called the Tennessee Valley Authority, one of the greatest achievements of the New Deal. This is a history for a wide audience, including readers interested in American history, technology, politics, and the future.

Table contents:

Part I. Muscle Shoals
Chapter 1. Where the River Sings
Chapter 2. The Wonder City at War
Chapter 3. Uncle Henry
Chapter 4. $8 a Second
Chapter 5. Camping with the President
Chapter 6. Politics and Public Relations
Chapter 7. The Twin Wizards
Chapter 8. Roadblock
Chapter 9. President Henry Ford
Part II. Boomtown
Chapter 10. Swampland and Whiskey
Chapter 11. A Party of One
Chapter 12. The 75-Mile City
Chapter 13. Gutters of Political Filth
Chapter 14. The Last Meeting
Chapter 15. Scandal
Part III. TVA
Chapter 16. The Alabama Ghost
Chapter 17. A New Deal
Chapter 18. “I’m Goin’ to Die for the Government”
Chapter 19. Electric Nation
Chapter 20. A Sign in the Sky

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