Huey Long
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this work describes the life of one of the most extraordinary figures in American political history. Huey Long was a great natural politician who looked, and often seemed to behave, like a caricature of the red-neck Southern politico, and yet had become at the time of his assassination a serious rival to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the Presidency. In this "masterpiece of American biography" [New York Times Book Review], Huey Long stands wholly revealed, analyzed, and understood.
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Huey Long
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this work describes the life of one of the most extraordinary figures in American political history. Huey Long was a great natural politician who looked, and often seemed to behave, like a caricature of the red-neck Southern politico, and yet had become at the time of his assassination a serious rival to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the Presidency. In this "masterpiece of American biography" [New York Times Book Review], Huey Long stands wholly revealed, analyzed, and understood.
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Huey Long

Huey Long

by T. Harry Williams
Huey Long

Huey Long

by T. Harry Williams

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Overview

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this work describes the life of one of the most extraordinary figures in American political history. Huey Long was a great natural politician who looked, and often seemed to behave, like a caricature of the red-neck Southern politico, and yet had become at the time of his assassination a serious rival to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the Presidency. In this "masterpiece of American biography" [New York Times Book Review], Huey Long stands wholly revealed, analyzed, and understood.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780394747903
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/12/1981
Edition description: 1st Vintage Books ed
Pages: 944
Sales rank: 104,710
Product dimensions: 5.21(w) x 7.94(h) x 1.65(d)

About the Author

T. Harry Williams was born in Vinegar Hill, Illinois, in 1909. He taught at the universities of Wisconsin, Omaha, and West Virginia before becoming Professor of History of Louisiana State University, and was the author of many books on military and political history. The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History was established at Louisiana State University in 1992.

Table of Contents

1Not Even a Horse3
2There He Goes Again25
3High Popalorum and Low Popahirum47
4All the Law Business I Could Handle71
5I Won a Very Good Lawsuit91
6The Sport of Kings106
7The Fight Is Just Beginning129
8We Are Forcing Them Back153
9Blood on the Moon181
10I Am a Candidate214
11In the Radiance of the Future244
12Fry Me a Steak280
13Kingfish of the Lodge312
14Bloody Monday-and Impeachment347
15The Round Robins384
16We Propose to Go Faster420
17Beating the Feather Duster454
18I've Got a University492
19Completing Our Great Program526
20We Always Have a Wild Man554
21A Circus Hitched to a Tornado583
22He Lied to Me619
23Polecats Everywhere648
24Share Our Wealth676
25Sit Down, Isom707
26Power in Himself737
27Fighting for Their Ground763
28I Might Have a Good Parade793
29Lay Over, Huey819
30Blood on The Marble Floor848
Epilogue873
Bibliographical Essay877
Index884
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