short of revolutionary. Without providing any real recourse for those forced to endure the costs of progress—people whose property was to be flooded behind new dams, and those whose homes would be inundated with smokestack pollution, and those forced to accommodate new power lines strung across their lots—the TVA plowed ahead. By dint of his perch atop this vast, unchecked federal authority, Lilienthal could not only brush past some of the most powerful corporations in the country; he could impose his will on a population without heeding much of any local opposition.
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