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Richard D. White

Kingfish

The Reign of Huey P. Long

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-307-53576-4
  • EAN: 9780307535764
  • Produktnummer: 15733730
  • Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 400 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 6'181 KB

Über den Autor


Richard D. White, Jr., is a professor of public administration at Louisiana State University and the author of Roosevelt the Reformer: Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner 1889—1895. He lives in Baton Rouge.

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