Main entry:

Leighninger, Robert D., 1941-

Title & Author:

Building Louisiana : the legacy of the Public Works Administration / Robert D. Leighninger, Jr.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

Description:

xxx, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-290) and index.
Pt. I. A brief history of the PWA in Louisiana -- 1. How to respond to a great depression -- 2. Harold Ickes goes to work -- 3. Huey long versus the PWA -- 4. The second Louisiana purchase -- 5. Scandal -- Pt. II. Cultural infrastructure : redeveloping community -- 6. Schools -- 7. Universities -- 8. Courthouses -- Pt. III. Physical infrastructure : building a modern economy -- 9. The U.S. Marine Hospital at Carville and other federal projects -- 10. The New Orleans Charity Hospital -- 11. The French market -- 12. The Shreveport incinerator -- 13. Sugar -- 14. The New Orleans Sewer and water project -- 15. Beyond the Bayous -- App. The legacy : an inventory of nonfederal PWA projects in Louisiana.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"Building Louisiana documents the projects one New Deal agency erected in one southern state and places these in social and political context. Based on extensive research in the National Archives and substantial field work within the state, Leighninger has gathered the story of the establishment of the PWA and the feverish building activity that ensued. He also recounts early tussles with Huey Long and the scandals involving public works discovered during the late New Deal."--BOOK JACKET.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9781578069453 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1578069459 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

United States. Public Works Administration.
Public works Louisiana History.
Travaux publics Louisiane Histoire.
Public works.
Louisiana.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253296
Call No.: BIB 183026
Status: Available