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Kingfish The Reign of Huey P Long by Richard D White Jr Soft Cover
Kingfish The Reign of Huey P Long by Richard D White Jr
Soft Cover
361 pages
Copyright 2006
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ix
CHAPTER 1A WEDDED MAN WITH A STORM FOR A BRIDE 3
CHAPTER 2I WAS BORN BAREFOOT 2
CHAPTER 3SCHOOLBOOKS, SCANDALS, AND SKULDUGGERY 36
CHAPTER 4ENOUGH MONEY TO BURN A WET MULE 6o
CHAPTER 5BOUGHT LIKE A SACK OF POTATOES 74
CHAPTER 6GREEN SILK PAJAMAS AND A KIDNAPPING 90
CHAPTER 7SELL THEM PLUGS 115
CHAPTER 8WITCHES BOUND AT THE STAKE 135
CHAPTER 9HATTIE AND HUEY 149
CHAPTER 10 WHO IS THAT AWFUL MAN? 164
CHAPTER 11A BLACK EYE FOR THE KINGFISH 179
CHAPTER 12CUT THEIR NAILS AND FILE THEIR TEETH 193
CHAPTER 13A TAX ON LYING 207
CHAPTER 14 TEAR-DIMMED EYES AND HUNGRY SOULS 225
CHAPTER 15NUTS RUNNING AMERICA 243
CHAPTER 16STRUCK LIKE A RATTLESNAKE 260
EPILOGUE 267
SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 275
NOTES 279
REFERENCES 333
INDEX 345
ON THE BACK COVER
From the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin's bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A man of shameless ambition and ruthless vindictiveness, Long orchestrated elections, hired and fired thousands at will, and deployed the state militia as his personal police force. And yet, paradoxically, as governor and later as senator, Long did more good for the state's poor and uneducated than any politician before or since. Outrageous demagogue or charismatic visionary? In this powerful biography, Richard D. White, Jr., taps invaluable new source material and brings Huey Long to life in all his blazing, controversial glory.
Long was a tragic heroa power addict who squandered his genius and came close to destroying the very foundation of democratic rule. Kingfish is an absolutely spellbinding portrait of the life and times of the most incendiary figure in the history of American politics.
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