TESTAMENT TO A PEOPLE
Meyer, Ernest L.
Testament To A People THE VALLEY AND ITS PEOPLE, A Portrait of TV A, by R. L. Duff us and Charles Krutch. Knopf. $2.75. Reviewed by Ernest L. Meyer HERE is an excellent companion book to TV A:...
...Duffus does not pretend to the detail-ism of Mr...
...TVA, he says, is not a pyramiding of authority...
...The product of the TVA dams, as Mr...
...Lilienthal's authoritative work...
...Duffus does do is present in his characteristically lucid prose, a compact history of the magnificent achievements of TVA, not only in its engineering miracle of transforming a flood-ridden river into a giant public servant, but in its wizardry of changing a whole underprivileged valley people into a comparatively affluent, bustling, hopeful cooperative commonwealth...
...It is a testament in factual prose and picture to the latent genius in common people which under intelligent leadership can be aroused to far-seeing and enlightened ends...
...Duffus' text is illustrated by about 100 stirring photographs selected under the supervision of Charles Krutch, chief of the TVA graphics department...
...What Mr...
...it is a pooling of knowledge, experience, and hard work...
...Duffus adequately and glowingly reports, can be measured, not only in terms of electric kilowatts but of human character...
...Reviewed by Ernest L. Meyer HERE is an excellent companion book to TV A: Democracy on the March, written by David F...
...Lil-ienthal, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, In his text, Mr...
...It is, however, far more than a "guidebook...
...it is the old democracy that has come back in modern dress...
...The volume is one in the Knopf series of books on the contemporary American scene...
Vol. 8 • December 1944 • No. 52
