Begins a series on the development of the US into a modern nation and society since 1865. Examines US President Truman’s electric power policies, from the 1948 campaign when he championed
expanding public power programs introduced during the New Deal, through his first term in office. Drawing on archival material, documents how his proposals were thought then to signal that
liberalism was taking the political offensive, but their failure in fact ushered in a more conservative period. Finds that they were adulterated by private power interests, discord among
agencies and people in his government, and a split in the Democratic Party. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
