This work describes the life of one of the most extraordinary figures in American political history.
| 1 | Not Even a Horse | 3 |
| 2 | There He Goes Again | 25 |
| 3 | High Popalorum and Low Popahirum | 47 |
| 4 | All the Law Business I Could Handle | 71 |
| 5 | I Won a Very Good Lawsuit | 91 |
| 6 | The Sport of Kings | 106 |
| 7 | The Fight Is Just Beginning | 129 |
| 8 | We Are Forcing Them Back | 153 |
| 9 | Blood on the Moon | 181 |
| 10 | I Am a Candidate | 214 |
| 11 | In the Radiance of the Future | 244 |
| 12 | Fry Me a Steak | 280 |
| 13 | Kingfish of the Lodge | 312 |
| 14 | Bloody Monday-and Impeachment | 347 |
| 15 | The Round Robins | 384 |
| 16 | We Propose to Go Faster | 420 |
| 17 | Beating the Feather Duster | 454 |
| 18 | I've Got a University | 492 |
| 19 | Completing Our Great Program | 526 |
| 20 | We Always Have a Wild Man | 554 |
| 21 | A Circus Hitched to a Tornado | 583 |
| 22 | He Lied to Me | 619 |
| 23 | Polecats Everywhere | 648 |
| 24 | Share Our Wealth | 676 |
| 25 | Sit Down, Isom | 707 |
| 26 | Power in Himself | 737 |
| 27 | Fighting for Their Ground | 763 |
| 28 | I Might Have a Good Parade | 793 |
| 29 | Lay Over, Huey | 819 |
| 30 | Blood on The Marble Floor | 848 |
| Epilogue | 873 | |
| Bibliographical Essay | 877 | |
| Index | 884 |
richardcolonel
Posted December 2, 2011
I read this book back in the 1970 when I was still in my twenties. I enjoyed this book especially for it candor and it politically inclined Subject: namely Huey Long. Senator, Governor and manipulater. Had he not been assassinated I do believe he would have challenged FDR in the 1936 Presidential election. This is an excellent book and ought to be on every bookshelf in the country.
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Posted December 28, 2003
This is an outstanding biography, primarily political but personal as well (with Long, it was hard to tell where one ended and the other began). Huey was by no means foreordained to greatness; one could see in him the snake-oil salesman from his first days in the business world, seemingly setting himself up for a fall. But fall he did not, and once he entered the realm of politics he had found his true metier. From his 'service' on the Public Service Commission, through his battles with the New Orleans machine, to election campaigns for Governor and Senator, to his 'manupilation' of FDR, the book hums with Huey's sly populism and mastery of the political process. A great read.
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Posted August 29, 2003
This is a particularly well written and researched biography of Huey Long. At times, though, the detail gets in the way of the telling of what is certainly a fascinating 'only in America' type of story. Williams' real advantage is in the way he deals with dissenting opinions - clearly, fairly and accurately - leaving the well informed reader to make his/her own decisions. Perhaps Mr, Williams' review here suffered from my having just read two volumes of Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson, in his own way quite similar to the Kingfish, where hundreds and hundreds of pages just fly by without one's noticing. At times, this biography dragged just a bit, and at almost 900 pages, that's something you don't want to happen. All in all, though, quite good.
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Posted June 22, 2003
Huey Long is an indepth look at one of the most colorful politicians in American history. T. Harry Williams not only was an outstanding author but he was a wonderful teacher.
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Overview
This work describes the life of one of the most extraordinary figures in American political history.