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Prisoners of Myth
Prisoners of Myth is the first comprehensive history of the Tennessee Valley Authority from its creation to the present day. It is also a telling case study of organizational evolution and decline. Building on Philip Selznick's classic work TVA and the Grass Roots (1949), a seminal text in the theoretical study of bureaucracy, Erwin Hargrove analyzes the organizational culture of the TVA by looking at the actions of its leaders over six decades--from the heroic years of the New Deal and World War II through the postwar period of consolidation and growth to the time of troubles from 1970 onward, when the TVA ran afoul of environmental legislation, built a massive nuclear power program that it...
Ducktown Smoke
It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year. But after decades of copper mining, all that remained of the old hardwood forests in the Ducktown Mining District of the Southern Appalachian Mountains was a fifty-square mile barren expanse of heavily gullied red hills--a landscape created by sulfur dioxide smoke from copper smelting and destructive logging practices. In Ducktown Smoke, Duncan Maysilles examines this environmental disaster, one of the worst the South has experienced, and its impact on environmental law and Appalachian conservation. Beginning in 1896, the widening destruction wrought in Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina by Ducktown copp...
Ethics in Government
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Was im Schatten lauert
Schock für FBI-Profilerin Libby Whitman und ihre Familie: Drei maskierte Unbekannte versuchen, Libbys zwölfjährige Schwester Hayley vor einem Einkaufszentrum zu entführen. In letzter Sekunde gelingt es Matt, die Kidnapper seiner Tochter in die Flucht zu schlagen, die unerkannt entkommen können. Doch um wen handelt es sich bei den Tätern? Während die Polizei eine Neonazi-Gruppierung durchleuchtet, die den Whitmans schon früher Ärger gemacht hat, holt Libby ihre Schwester zu sich ins Tausende Meilen entfernte Virginia, um sie aus der Schusslinie zu bringen. Die beiden erleben eine intensive Zeit zusammen, doch die Gefahr ist noch nicht gebannt ...
Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie
What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future? Courtney Elizabeth Knapp chronicles the politics of gentrification and culture-based development in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by tracing the roots of racism, spatial segregation, and mainstream "cosmopolitanism" back to the earliest encounters between the Cherokee, African Americans, and white settlers. For more than three centuries, Chattanooga has been a site for multiracial interaction and community building; yet today public leaders have simultaneously restricted and appropriated many contributions of working-class communities of color within th...
