ABOUT THIS BOOK

This is a study of TVA management of Tellico Dam. Part of the ambitious New Deal project to bring modernity to Appalachia, TVA planning was far-reaching, often far-sighted, but also controversial, involving mass migration of people from their ancestral homes and threats to species, like the snail darter.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

William Bruce Wheeler is retired history professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the author of Knoxville, Tennessee: A Mountain City in the New South, third edition.

Michael McDonald was a professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the coauthor of TVA and the Dispossessed.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENTS

Preface

1.
TVA and the Search for a New Mission

2.
The Decision to Build the Tellico Dam

3.
The Little Tennessee Valley and the Process of Modernization

4.
Storm Clouds on the Horizon: The Rise of Opposition

5.
The Search for Justification: The Benefit-Cost Problem

6.
Attacks and Counterattacks: The Tellico Debate Goes National

7.
The Model City as Microcosm: The Timberlake Imbroglio

8.
The Snail Darter, the Courts, and the Changing of the Guard at TVA

Conclusion: TVA and the Tellico Dam

Appendix:
Land Purchases by TVA at Tellico, 1967–1976

Notes

A Note on Sources

Acknowledgments

Index

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