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The political views of Huey P. Long' s political views have often challenged historians and biographers. [ 1] While most say that Louisiana Governor and Senator Huey Long was a populist, little else can be agreed on. Huey Long 's opponents, both during his life and after, often drew connections between him and his ideology and far-left and ...
e. Huey Pierce Long Jr. (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), nicknamed " The Kingfish ", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. He was a left-wing populist member of the Democratic Party and rose to national ...
My First Days in the White House. v. t. e. My First Days in the White House is a 1935 book written by Huey Long, with full-page illustrations by The New Yorker cartoonist Cleanthe Carr. [1] Called Long's "second autobiography" and published posthumously in 1935, it emphatically laid out his presidential ambitions for the election of 1936. [2]
It Can't Happen Here is a 1935 dystopian political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis. [1] Set in the fictionalized version of 1930s United States, it follows an American politician, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who quickly rises to power to become the country's first outright dictator (in allusion to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Nazi Germany) and Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor who ...
Garet Garrett, The People's Pottage (1951, later republished as Burden of Empire and Ex America) Murray Rothbard, America's Great Depression. (1963) James J. Martin, American Liberalism and World Politics, 1931–1941 (1964) Garet Garrett, Salvos Against the New Deal: Selections from the Saturday Evening Post, 1933–1940 (2002), edited by ...
Every Man a King (1933) is an autobiography by Huey Long, who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana and as a member of the United States Senate. Aged 39 at the time, Long would be assassinated two years later. The book explores Long's rise to power. [ 1] Long's posthumously published My First Days in the White House is sometimes referred to ...
Roosevelt was criticized by conservatives for his economic policies, especially the shift in tone from individualism to collectivism with the expansion of the welfare state and regulation of the economy. Those criticisms continued decades after his death. One factor in the revisiting of these issues in later decades was the election of Ronald ...
Another legend has it that Huey P. Long built Airline Highway so he could get from the statehouse to the back door of the hotel as quickly as possible. "During that time of course, this was all ...