Huey Long, T. Harry Williams
Huey Long, T. Harry Williams
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Huey Long

Author: T. Harry Williams

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 30 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/17/2009

Synopsis

He was one of the most extraordinary figures in American political history, a great natural politician who looked, and often seemed to behave, like a caricature of the redneck Southern politico, and yet he had become at the time of his assassination a serious rival to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency. In this masterpiece of American biography (New York Times), Huey Long stands wholly revealed, analyzed, and understood.

About T. Harry Williams

Thomas Harry Williams (1909–1979) was an award-winning author and historian who garnered numerous academic honors. He is perhaps best known for his American Civil War studies and his 1969 work Huey Long, the definitive study of Huey Pierce Long, Jr., which won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Other acclaimed works include Lincoln and the Radicals (1941), P.G.T. Beauregard, Napoleon in Gray (1955), Romance and Realism in Southern Politics (1961), McClellan, Sherman, and Grant (1962), and posthumously History of American Wars (1981). In 1964, he received the Harry S. Truman Award in Civil War History. Upon his death, the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors established the T. Harry Williams Chair of American History and the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erik on March 06, 2014

This was one of the best biographies I've ever read--and I've read lots of biographies. Such praise is especially noteworthy in that its author was an academic historian. Few biographies I've seen combine the virtues of great writing with high standards of scholarship. Few biographies of such length......more

Goodreads review by Julio on October 04, 2022

"Had Long lived he might have well brought fascism to America."---Journalist John Gunther "If fascism ever comes to America it will be called Americanism".---Huey Long, attributed Does the following political portrait sound familiar? A scoundrel, egomaniac, possible embezzler and clownish showman rise......more

Goodreads review by Frank on August 23, 2012

Definitely one of the best political biographies of all time. When T. Harry Williams published the book back in 1969, he was one of the first academically-trained historians to use oral history sources to compliment his research, and unlike academic historians today who use oral histories to beat to......more

Goodreads review by Judy on June 25, 2017

An amazing biography and analysis of the life and politics of Huey Long, the governor of Louisiana and political rival to Franklin D. Roosevelt. So well written that it was hard to put down.......more

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