FDR's Utopian: Arthur Morgan of the TVA by Roy Talbert, Jr. Arthur E. Morgan (1878-1975) was a visionary who responded to a very high calling-the building of the perfect community, one he saw as based upon the bedrock of morality. He belonged to that late nineteenth-century generation of half-geniuses who were dramatically shaped by the conflict between religion and science. By the time of World War I he had become an archetypal progressive, a nationally recognized flood-control engineer, and a committed moral reformer. At heart, he was a professed Utopian, dreaming of building a community whose center was education and whose foundation was strong moral codes. His first opportunity to create a Utopia came in the 1920s at Antioch College, to which he brought national fame with his innovative leadership, including the principle that all students should gain practical experience. Yet this stern moralism, constricted by the coming of the Great Depression, caused severe difficulties for...

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