Huey Long

by WILLIAMS, T. HARRY

• ISBN13: 9780394747903
• ISBN10: 0394747909
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1981-08-12
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

Not Even a Horse	p. 3
There He Goes Again	p. 25
High Popalorum and Low Popahirum	p. 47
All the Law Business I Could Handle	p. 71
I Won a Very Good Lawsuit	p. 91
The Sport of Kings	p. 106
The Fight Is Just Beginning	p. 129
We Are Forcing Them Back	p. 153
Blood on the Moon	p. 181
I Am a Candidate	p. 214
In the Radiance of the Future	p. 244
Fry Me a Steak	p. 280
Kingfish of the Lodge	p. 312
Bloody Monday-and Impeachment	p. 347
The Round Robins	p. 384
We Propose to Go Faster	p. 420
Beating the Feather Duster	p. 454
I've Got a University	p. 492
Completing Our Great Program	p. 526
We Always Have a Wild Man	p. 554
A Circus Hitched to a Tornado	p. 583
He Lied to Me	p. 619
Polecats Everywhere	p. 648
Share Our Wealth	p. 676
Sit Down, Isom	p. 707
Power in Himself	p. 737
Fighting for Their Ground	p. 763
I Might Have a Good Parade	p. 793
Lay Over, Huey	p. 819
Blood on The Marble Floor	p. 848
Epilogue	p. 873
Bibliographical Essay	p. 877
Index	p. 884
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