Huey Long T. Harry Williams

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, T. Harry (Thomas Harry), 1909-1979.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Long, Huey Pierce, 1893-1935.

Long, Huey Pierce.

Governors--Louisiana--Biography.

Governors.

Louisiana--Politics and government--1865-1950.

Louisiana.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 884, xxii pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm.

Edition:

[1st ed.].

Place of Publication:

New York : Knopf, 1969.

Summary:

Author does full justice to a flamboyant, unscrupulous, quick-witted, and vestigially idealistic figure. Massive coverage of the 1920's and 1930's and excellent portraits of the personalities which gave them flavor are handled with scholarship and grace.

Contents:

Not even a horse

There he goes again

High popalorum and low popahirum

All the law business I could handle

I won a very good lawsuit

The sport of kings

The fight is just beginning

We are forcing them back

Blood on the moon

I am a candidate

In the radiance of the future

Fry me a steak

Kingfish of the lodge

Bloody Monday, and impeachment

The round robins

We propose to go faster

Beating the feather duster

I've got a university

Completing our great program

We always have a wild man

A circus hitched to a tornado

He lied to me

Polecats everywhere

Share our wealth

Sit down, Isom

Power in himself

Fighting for their ground

I might have a good parade

Lay over, Huey

Blood on the marble floor

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1970.

OCLC:

44404