TVA gets all the notice but BPA (Bonneville Power Administration) was built at the same time and also had and has a provided a fantastic boost to the region it's in. One thing that most people don't realize is that TVA and BPA provided the massive amounts of power that were needed to produce the atomic bomb. I had an economic professor who was confusingly an ultra liberal, militant nationalist. He looked at the Manhattan project and the TVA/BPA as the ultimate expression of positive socialist militancy. "It was socialism that killed those goddamn fascisst, and don't you believe that capitalism is capable of the kind of slaughter that top down war time economy can achieve! Capitalism is great if you want to eat pizzas and have cars with too many features but if you want to kill Nazis, Italians or Japanese fascists you want socialism." He was really something.