Kingfish
The Reign of Huey P. Long

There’ll be peace without end Every neighbor a friend And every man a king! - Huey Long campaign song, composed by Huey Long THE LOST ART OF THE POLITICAL INSULT Let’s start with the fun part. In those days, the 20s and 30s, they had a real gift for insulting their political opponents. I don’t hear that......more

Not until 2016 was there ever a more flamboyant, ostentatious, and pretentious S.O.B. in American politics. Huey P. Long proved that if you can buffalo the barely literate into thinking you have their best interests at heart, you can go quite far in this country—even if you have the scruples of a vo......more

I hesitated before reading "The Reign of Huey P. Long" since a Pulitzer Price winning biography based on oral history on Long's life was also tempting. But now I don't regret in because diving in White's portrait of the Kingfish was a real pleasure. First and foremost, I learned about how state poli......more