Kingfish - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kingfish write by Richard D. White, Jr.. This book was released on 2009-03-25. Kingfish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 new biography, Richard D. White, Jr., brings Huey Long to life in all his blazing, controversial glory. White taps invaluable new source material to present a fresh, vivid portrait of both the man and the Depression era that catapulted him to fame. From his boyhood in dirt-poor Winn Parish, Long knew he was destined for power–the problem was how to get it fast enough to satisfy his insatiable appetite. With cunning and crudity unheard of in Louisiana politics, Long crushed his opponents in the 1928 gubernatorial race, then immediately set about tightening his iron grip. The press attacked him viciously, the oil companies howled for his blood after he pushed through a controversial oil processing tax, but Long had the adulation of the people. In 1930, the Kingfish got himself elected senator, and then there was no stopping him. White’s account of Long’s heyday unfolds with the mesmerizing intensity of a movie. Pegged by President Roosevelt as “one of the two most dangerous men in the country,” Long organized a radical movement to redistribute money through his Share Our Wealth Society–and his gospel of pensions for all, a shorter workweek, and free college spread like wildfire. The Louisiana poor already worshiped him for building thousands of miles of roads and funding schools, hospitals, and universities; his outrageous antics on the Senate floor gained him a growing national base. By 1935, despite a barrage of corruption investigations, Huey Long announced that he was running for president. In the end, Long was a tragic hero–a power addict who squandered his genius and came close to destroying the very foundation of democratic rule. Kingfish is a balanced, lucid, and absolutely spellbinding portrait of the life and times of the most incendiary figure in the history of American politics.
The Kingfish and His Realm
The Kingfish and His Realm - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Kingfish and His Realm write by William Ivy Hair. This book was released on 1996. The Kingfish and His Realm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Kingfish in Fiction
The Kingfish in Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Kingfish in Fiction write by Keith Perry. This book was released on 2004-06-01. The Kingfish in Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The controversial, almost mythic Louisiana politician Huey P. Long inspired not just one but six American novels, published between 1934 and 1946. And he continues to resonate in American cultural memory, appearing in a 1995 work of historical fiction. The Kingfish in Fiction offers the first study of all six “Hueys-who-aren’t-Hueys” as they strut and bluster their way across the literary page, each character with his own particular story, each towing a different authorial agenda. Keith Perry carefully dissects the intertwining of documented history and artistic invention in Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here, Hamilton Basso’s Cinnamon Seed and Sun in Capricorn, John Dos Passos’s Number One, Adria Locke Langley’s A Lion Is in the Streets, and Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men. Perry explains that Lewis cast his version of the Kingfish as a totalitarian menace, a sort of homegrown Hitler, in what Lewis later admitted was an unapologetic attempt to sabotage Long’s designs on the White House. Basso, one of Long’s most vocal detractors, created two Long-based characters, each a rabble-rousing affront to what remained of the Old South order. To warn readers of the dangers hidden in the politician-constituent contract, Dos Passos transformed Long into a shameless manipulator of the gullible American masses. Langley’s rendition suffers complete condemnation by its creator for personal as well as public transgressions. Warren’s spellbinding Willie Stark, almost as much philosopher as politician, ironically bears the least resemblance to Long though for almost six decades Stark has been Long’s best-known fictional embodiment. Exploring how and why these five authors—among them, a Nobel laureate, one of America’s most celebrated political novelists, and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner—turned one politician into six fictional characters leads Perry to conclude that Huey P. Long’s lasting impression may well be a composite of both historical and imaginative interpretation.
Mafia Kingfish
Mafia Kingfish - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mafia Kingfish write by John H. Davis. This book was released on 1989. Mafia Kingfish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Story of the Mafia leader who the author believes was involved in the assassination of President Kennedy and other crimes and scandals in addition to running an organized crime empire in Louisiana.
Huey Long
Huey Long - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Huey Long write by Suzanne LeVert. This book was released on 1995. Huey Long available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides a look at the controversial Louisiana statesman who fought, with sometimes questionable methods, to improve the quality of life of the poor
