Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great DepressionThe study of two great demagogues in American history--Huey P. Long, a first-term United States Senator from the red-clay, piney-woods country of nothern Louisiana; and Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from an industrial suburb near Detroit. Award-winning historian Alan Brinkely describes their modest origins and their parallel rise together in the early years of the Great Depression to become the two most successful leaders of national political dissidence of their era. *Winner of the American Book Award for History* |
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User Review - stevesmits - LibraryThingThis 25-year old book that recounts the political scene over 85 years ago resonates to our political sensibilities even today. Professor Brinkley analyzes the populist dissident movements of the 1930 ... Read full review
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User Review - mkrat - Overstock.comIf youre a history buff looking for a wellwritten perspective of the dissenting views from Huey Long and Father Coughlin during the Great Depression then this is for you. Good insight is provided to better understand these demagogues of the 1930s. Read full review
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