The Tennessee Valley

Leiter, Kelly

ISBN 10: 0813120519 / ISBN 13: 9780813120515

Published by The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 1998

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xi, [1], 148 pages. Illustrations (most in color). Map. Signed by the text author and the photographer on fep. Both author and photographer are deceased. This is subtitled on the DJ (front and front flap) A Photographic Portrait. In 1998, Mr. Kollar and Kelly Leiter, former dean of the University of Tennessee College of Communications, collaborated on "The Tennessee Valley: A Photographic Portrait," a collection of 240 color photographs depicting everything from Smoky Mountain sunsets to the Winterfest lights of Pigeon Forge. At TVA, Kollar photographed and wrote about the employees, projects and communities affected by TVA and won national and international recognition for his work. As co-author of the book "The Tennessee Valley: A Photographic Portrait," his pictures were nationally showcased. Robert Kollar captures the diversity, color, and dramatic scale of life in the Tennessee Valley in this collection of 240 photographs. He records the Friday night high school football games, county fairs, family reunions, and Sunday dinners that make the region so appealing. Kelly Leiter s text reveals the real people behind the faces-their concerns and their pride, their savvy, and their traditionalism.From nuclear power plants to county fairs and football games, if it had to do with the history of the Tennessee Valley, Robert "Bob" Kollar was there with his camera. After working for The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville in the 1960s and 1970s, Mr. Kollar and his wife, Mary, moved to Knoxville where he took a job as photographer and writer for the Tennessee Valley Authority. He was there when the World's Fair came to Knoxville in 1982, and over the next two decades his photography - everything from TVA board meetings to rural communities affected by TVA - earned him international and national recognition. In the early 1990s, Mr. Kollar documented TVA's initiative to restart its nuclear power program. He traveled widely throughout TVA's seven-state power region to capture images related to the agency's focus on economic development, and he got to meet a lot of people.Kelly Leiter, dean emeritus of the College of Communications at UT, was born October 25, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio. He twice served in the Navy, first as an enlisted 17-year-old seaman during World War II and again as a reservist during the Korean War. A journalism graduate of Indiana University, he spent nearly fifteen years as a reporter, feature writer, columnist, and editor for The Indianapolis News, The Chicago Daily News, The Washington Star, and the Hialeah Florida Home News. He was also a correspondent for Life magazine and a contributor to the Christian Science Monitor and The Nation. He then decided to return to graduate school at Southern Illinois University where he received his master's and doctorate degrees while teaching and supervising the news operation of The Daily Egyptian. He joined the University of Tennessee faculty in 1966 and taught writing, editing, newspaper layout and design, history, and law. He served as assistant dean of the College of Communications for five years and as associate dean for one year. He was named acting dean in 1984 and served as dean of the College of Communications from 1985 to 1990. During his tenure as dean, he was instrumental in establishing a Chair of Excellence in Science, Technology, and Media Writing.At UT, he was the first faculty member to receive the UT National Alumni Association's Outstanding Teaching Award and Outstanding Public Service Award. Leiter was honored twice for extraordinary service to the university, and he received the President's Award for Outstanding Service to the Tennessee Press Association. Leiter was the principal co-author of The Complete Reporter, a reporting textbook that began publication in the mid-1940s and was published continuously until its last edition (the 7th edition) in 1999. He also served as editor of The Tennessee Press, the monthly publication of the Tennessee Press Associatio.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Tennessee Valley
• Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813120519
• ISBN 13: 9780813120515
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Robert Kollar (Photographs)
• Edition: First Printing [Stated].
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

"Robert Kollar captures the diversity, color, and dramatic scale of life in the Tennessee Valley in this collection of 240 color photographs. He records the Friday night high school football games, county fairs, family reunions, and Sunday dinners that make the region so appealing. Kelly Leiter s text reveals the real people behind the faces-their concerns and their pride, their savvy, and their traditionalism."

Review

"This book provides marvelous photographic insights into the daily life of the Valley, its people, workplaces, and visitors." -- Bookman News

"Kollar's photos are the real stars, showing off everything from the Winterfest lights of Pigeon Forge and a Smoky Mountains sunset, to Elvis Presley's birth place in Tupelo, Miss., and The Grand Guitar alongside I-81 on the Tennessee-Virginia line." -- Bristol (TN) Herald-Courier

"Kollar and Leiter focus on the small towns, rugged landscapes, and folkways that make the region a unique part of America" -- Cleveland (TN) Banner

"It would be helpful if a volume like this one, examining the region in detail, could be published every decade. ... The text of this brief work is useful in amplifying data and clarifying some of the subtle and not-so-subtle changes that have transformed the Tennessee Valley in recent years." -- Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy

"Leiter and Kollar focus on the small towns and the rugged beauty of the landscape and folkways that make the region a unique part of America." -- Johnson City Press

"To their credit, they see everything -- from stunning sunsets to stock car races, from Dolly Parton to polluting factories, from plowed earth to people of every persuasion" -- Knoxville News-Sentinel

"To be Southern is to know place, and this is a book of place." -- Magazine (Baton Rouge, LA)

"Kollar's photography is absolutely smashing." -- Southern Seen