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.

United States. Congress. Senate--Biography.

United States.

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

Louisiana.

United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Legislators--United States--Biography.

Legislators.

Governors--Louisiana--Biography.

Governors.

United States. Congress. Senate.

Politics and government.

Genre:

collective biographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 884, xxii pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

1st Vintage books ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 1981, ©1969.

Summary:

A detailed biography of the red-neck politician who became a national demagogue in the twenties and thirties and almost reached the White House.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0394747909

9780394747903

OCLC:

7554516

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