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001			on1140721664
003			OCoLC
005			20201217134328.0
008			200217s2020 nyua b 001 0 eng d
040			_aYDX _beng _erda _cYDX _dOCLCQ _dTVP _dOCLCO _dBDX _dOCLCF _dOQX _dNFG
020			_a1635767326 _q(paperback)
020			_a9781635767322 _q(paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1140721664
092			_a973.917 _bR569
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aRiggs, John A., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aHigh tension : _bFDR's battle to power America / _cJohn A. Riggs.
250			_aFirst Diversion Books edition.
264		1	_a[New York, NY] _bDiversion Books, _c2020.
264		4	_c©2020
300			_axxxvi, 282 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 229-254) and index.
520			_aThe battle between a powerful industry and America's most politically astute president produced one of America's greatest achievements, electrifying the entire nation. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in the depths of the Depression, high tension power lines had been marching across the country for decades, delivering urban Americans a parade of life-transforming inventions from electric lights and radios to refrigerators and washing machines. But most rural Americans still lived in the punishing pre-electric era, unconnected to the grid, their lives consumed and bodies broken by backbreaking chores. Utilities cried that running power lines to rural areas would be unprofitable. But FDR knew better. In this story of political maneuvering, controversial legislation, giant utility holding companies, New Deal government organizations like the Tennessee Valley Authority, the packing of Federal courts, towering business figures, greedy villains, and the crying needs of farmers and other rural citizens desperate for services critical to their daily lives, John A. Riggs has chronicled democracy's greatest balancing act of government intervention with private markets.
600	1	0	_aRoosevelt, Franklin D. _q(Franklin Delano), _d1882-1945. _921158
650		0	_aElectric utilities _xHistory.
650		0	_aPresidents _xHistory.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government. _9196
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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