Sandeep Vaheesan - Democracy in Power

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Private money, public good, & the original fight for control of America’s energy industry.

<h3>Join us for an evening with Sandeep Vaheesan, as he discusses his book, Democracy in Power, a detailed &amp; critical examination of the original fight for control of America’s energy industry.</h3><h3> </h3><h3>This in-person event will be held at Solid State Books. Don't miss out!</h3><h3> </h3><h3>Tickets with AND without a book are available.</h3>

Until the 1930s, financial interests dominated electrical power in the United States. That changed with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal which restructured the industry. The government expanded public ownership, famously through the Tennessee Valley Authority, and promoted a new kind of utility: the rural electric cooperative that brought light and power to millions in the countryside. Since then, public and cooperative utilities have persisted as an alternative to shareholder control. Democracy in Power traces the rise of publicly governed utilities in the twentieth-century electrification of America.Sandeep Vaheesan shows that the path to accountability in America’s power sector was beset by bureaucratic challenges and fierce private resistance. Through a detailed and critical examination of this evolution, Vaheesan offers a blueprint for a publicly led and managed path to decarbonization. Democracy in Power is at once an essential history, a deeply relevant accounting of successes and failures, and a guide on how to avoid repeating past mistakes.

Sandeep Vaheesan is the legal director of the Open Markets Institute. His popular writing has appeared in the Washington Post, New Republic, Atlantic, and Dissent.

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