The new conservation. Giant power, rural electrification, and regional thought ; The farm crisis and the land utilization movement ; Herbert Hoover and rural conservation policy, 1928--1932 ; FDR: governor and candidate -- Poor people, poor land. The Tennessee Valley Authority ; Beyond the TVA: land utilization and rural rehabilitation ; Buried in dirt: the resettlement idea and the future of the Great Plains ; Rural electrification, soil conservation, water control, and farm security -- "The best new dealer from Texas". The Hill Country setting ; Historical development of the Colorado River ; Congressman Johnson ; LCRA expansion: rural electrification, recreation, and wartime growth -- The industrial transition. The resurrected AAA and the BAE's county planning experiment ; World War II and the decline of agrarian policy ; Jobs for all: industrial expansion and wartime resource policy -- Exporting the New Deal. Wartime assistance, postwar institution building, and the Cold War ; The Point Four Program ;The new conservation abroad.
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