Prisoners of Myth : : The Leadership of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1990 / / Erwin C. Hargrove.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1994] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 1994 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER 1. History and Theory
- PART I: The Founding Generation
- CHAPTER 2. Visions of an Institution
- CHAPTER 3. Lilienthal's TVA: The Politics of Leadership
- CHAPTER 4. The Development of TVA Organizational Culture
- CHAPTER 5. The Organization in Action
- EPILOGUE: PART I The Past as Prologue
- PART II: Prisoners of Myth
- CHAPTER 6. Consolidating Leadership: Clapp and Vogel
- CHAPTER 7. Rise and Fall of the Dynamo
- CHAPTER 8. The Politics of Organizational Renewal
- CHAPTER 9. Denouement
- EPILOGUE: PART II New Departures
- CHAPTER 10. Reflections
- Notes
- Index