Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I Muscle Shoals
Chapter 1 Where the River Sings 11
Chapter 2 The Wonder City at War 31
Chapter 3 Uncle Henry 47
Chapter 4 $8 a Second 65
Chapter 5 Camping with the President 77
Chapter 6 Politics and Public Relations 91
Chapter 7 The Twin Wizards 105
Chapter 8 Roadblock 121
Chapter 9 President Henry Ford 131
Part II Boomtown
Chapter 10 Swampland and Whiskey 143
Chapter 11 A Party of One 149
Chapter 12 The 75-Mile City 167
Chapter 13 Gutters of Political Filth 177
Chapter 14 The Last Meeting 185
Chapter 15 Scandal 195
Part III TVA
Chapter 16 The Alabama Ghost 209
Chapter 17 A New Deal 219
Chapter 18 "I'm Goin' to Die for the Government" 229
Chapter 19 Electric Nation 241
Chapter 20 A Sign in the Sky 251
Epilogue 267
Source Notes 273
Sources 283
Acknowledgments 289
Index 291