Kingfish

Author : Richard D. White, Jr.
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307535762
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingfish written by Richard D. White, Jr. and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : William Ivy Hair
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807141069
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kingfish and His Realm written by William Ivy Hair and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ed Reed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Requiem for a Kingfish written by Ed Reed and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Keith Perry
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807129425
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kingfish in Fiction written by Keith Perry and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John H. Davis
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mafia Kingfish written by John H. Davis and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1989 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Richard Briley III
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787207439
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death of the Kingfish! written by Richard Briley III and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1960, this book by former newspaperman, author and Louisianan native, Richard Briley III, deals with the untimely demise of Huey Long, aka “The Kingfish,” an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana (1928-1932) and as a member of the U.S. Senate from 1932 until his death by assassination in 1935. A Democrat, “The Kingfish” was an outspoken populist who denounced the wealthy and the banks and called for a “Share Our Wealth” program. As the political leader of the state, he commanded wide networks of supporters and was willing to take forceful action. He established the long-term political prominence of the Long family. Long’s Share Our Wealth plan was established in 1934 under the motto “Every Man a King.” It proposed new wealth redistribution measures in the form of a net asset tax on corporations and individuals to curb the poverty and homelessness endemic nationwide during the Great Depression. To stimulate the economy, Long advocated federal spending on public works, schools and colleges, and old age pensions. He was an ardent critic of the policies of the Federal Reserve System. Under Long’s leadership, hospitals and educational institutions were expanded, a system of charity hospitals was set up that provided health care for the poor, massive highway construction and free bridges brought an end to rural isolation, and free textbooks were provided for schoolchildren. He remains a controversial figure in Louisiana history, with critics and supporters debating whether or not he could have potentially become a dictator or was a demagogue.

Author : Thomas O. Harris
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455607044
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kingfish written by Thomas O. Harris and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling his meteoric rise to power and allegations of corruption, Thomas O. Harris's The Kingfish tells of Huey P. Long's many social reforms, which endeared him to the rural poor and made him an enemy of big business. Long was a man who, through hard work and perseverance, surpassed all boundaries previously aligned with American politicians. Harris very vividly points out the overall danger of Long's politics and his underlying selfish motives. He calls Long a dictator and a threat to the American political system but finds it hard to deny the many reasons for Long�s immense popularity within Louisiana.

Author : Stephen M. Harding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reproduction, Movements, and Population Dynamics of the Southern Kingfish, Menticirrhus Americanus, in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico written by Stephen M. Harding and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas O. Harris
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781565549869
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kingfish written by Thomas O. Harris and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huey P. Long--power, politics, and perseverance. Chronicling his meteoric rise to popularity and allegations of corruption, Thomas O. Harris tells of Huey P. Long's many social reforms, which endeared him to the rural poor and made him an enemy of big business. He also vividly points out the overall danger of Long's politics and his underlying selfish motives. Harris calls Long a dictator and a threat to the American political system but finds it hard to deny Long's heyday in Louisiana.

Author : Robert Mann
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807180025
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingfish U written by Robert Mann and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2023-06-07 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No political leader is more closely identified with Louisiana State University than the flamboyant governor and U.S. senator Huey P. Long, who devoted his last years to turning a small, undistinguished state school into an academic and football powerhouse. From 1931, when Long declared himself the “official thief” for LSU, to his death in 1935, the school’s budget mushroomed, its physical plant burgeoned, its faculty flourished, and its enrollment tripled. Along with improving LSU’s academic reputation, Long believed the school’s football program and band were crucial to its success. Taking an intense interest in the team, Long delivered pregame and halftime pep talks, devised plays, stalked the sidelines during games, and fired two coaches. He poured money into a larger, flashier band, supervised the hiring of two directors, and, with the second one, wrote a new fight song, “Touchdown for LSU.” While he rarely meddled in academic affairs, Long insisted that no faculty member criticize him publicly. When students or faculty from “his school” opposed him, retribution was swift. Long’s support for LSU did not come without consequences. His unrelenting involvement almost cost the university its accreditation. And after his death, several of his allies—including his handpicked university president—went to prison in a scandal that almost destroyed LSU. Rollicking and revealing, Robert Mann’s Kingfish U is the definitive story of Long’s embrace of LSU.