The Greater Good - Media, Family Removal, and TVA Dam Construction in North Alabama

Examines the role of press coverage in promoting the mission of the TVA, facilitating family relocation, and formulating the historical legacy of the New Deal

About the author

Laura Beth Daws is an associate professor of communication at Kennesaw State University. She has published articles in Communication Teacher, Florida Communication Journal, Kentucky Communication Journal, and In Media Res.

Susan L. Brinson is a professor emeritus of mass communication at Auburn University. She is the author of Personal and Public Interests: Frieda B. Hennock and the Federal Communications Commission and The Red Scare, Politics, and the Federal Communications Commission, 1941-1960 and is coeditor of Transmitting the Past: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Broadcasting.

Summary

Examines the role of press coverage in promoting the mission of the TVA, facilitating family relocation, and formulating the historical legacy of the New Deal. This book describes Tennessee’s preexisting conditions, analyses the effects of relocation, and argues that local newspapers had a significant impact in promoting the TVA's agenda.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Lorene Brinson, Laura Beth Daws
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780817320089
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-2008-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 231 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Modern South; Modern South
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous