Huey Long (18931935) was one of the most extraordinary American politicians, simultaneously cursed as a dictator and applauded as a benefactor of the masses. A product of the poor north Louisiana hills, he was elected governor of Louisiana in 1928, and proceeded to subjugate the powerful state political hierarchy after narrowly defeating an ...
In an attempt to take the subject of Louisiana politics out from under the dominating shadow of Huey Long, the author focuses on the form and content of Louisiana's one-party bifactional politics from 1920 to 1952. The rise of the Long faction is treated within the framework of a continuing movement of class protest originating in 19th-century ...
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Telegraph Press
Date Published: 1935
Description: Good+ with no dust jacket. 1st edition; hardcover, no dust jacket; G+/VG-condition; black-stamped textured red cloth boards; light rubbing to edges of boards, spine ends softened, small dent at bottom edge of boards, light patch of discoloration on back; some pages have creasing, particularly near the end of the book where bottom edge of text block sustained a slight dent; pages 37 to 47 have a stain in margin near the top edge not obscuring text or illustration; occasional smudge to pages and ... read more
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