Huey Long: A Candid Biography; With a Digest of the Share-Our-Wealth principles Prepared by Senator Huey Long
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1935. First Edition. 8vo. 312 pp. Index. [9] pp photo-reproductions (including frontispiece). With the name stamp on the front endpaper of T. Harry Williams, whose biography of Long won the Pulitzer Prize. Pale green cloth in yellow and green photo-illustrated dustjacket. A very good copy (with agetoning to cloth covers; blue marks on lower front cover; some rubbing to spine; wear to dustjacket extremities; small remnant of paper affixed to front and rear covers; agetoning). Item #21853
Huey Pierce Long Jr. (1893 – 1935), known also by the byname "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. Long was a left-wing populist member of the Democratic Party and rose to national prominence during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, which Long deemed insufficiently radical. This biography of Senator Long was on the press the morning he died. Since it was impossible to make any changes in the text, the author added a Postscript covering Long's death.
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