Creative Competition
Georgia Power, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Creation of a Rural Consumer Economy, 1934-1955
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4155229 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brent Cebul (Assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. In the summer of 2018, he will join the University of Pennsylvania as an assistant professor of history., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-70 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jay007 |
| OpenAlex | W2804079230 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt spent his second Thanksgiving as president at the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia. En route from Washington, D.C., Roosevelt toured the Tennessee River valley, visiting Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee. “Two years ago, in 1932,” he told reporters in Tupelo, Mississippi, “I came through ... and ... what I saw of human beings made the tears come to my eyes.” “And yet today,” he continued, “I see not only hope, but I see determination and a knowledge ... that we are Coming back.” The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the New Deal's massive experiment in federally subsidized electricity generation and distribution, helped create this sunnier outlook. But the reasons for citizens' newfound hope, Roosevelt contended, were more material: families were at last able “to improve their standard of living.” As he put it in Kentucky, “we are hewing out a Commonwealth ... which we hope will give to its people more truly than any that has gone before.” Beneath his soaring rhetoric, Roosevelt described the quotidian symbols of progress appearing in kitchens and on countertops across the region: “electric cookstoves and all the other dozens of things”—“gadgets,” he called them—were “improving human life.” The TVA, Roosevelt explained, “is primarily intended ... to improve the standards of living of the people of that valley.”1
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |