Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression

Alan Brinkley

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Aug 10, 2011 - History - 384 pages

The 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 - LibraryThing

This 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 ...

Excellent review of dissent during GD

User Review  - mkrat - Overstock.com

If 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.

Contents

• Prologue: 3
• The Kingfish Ascending: 21
• of Fascism: 269
• Father Coughlins Preamble and Principles: 287
• 242: 331
• Locations of Manuscript Collections: 333
• 269: 337

About the author

In addition to being a best selling textbook author, ALAN BRINKLEY is the Allan Nevins Professor of History and former Provost at Columbia University. He is the author of Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; and Liberalism and its Discontents. His most recent books are "John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963" and "The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century" both published recently. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard and taught previously at MIT, Harvard, and the City University Graduate School before joining the Columbia faculty In 1991. In 1998-1999, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He won the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Award at Harvard in 1987 and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia in 2003. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the board of trustees of the National Humanities Center and Oxford University Press, and chairman of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of Torino (Italy). He was the 1998-1999 Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression
• Author: Alan Brinkley
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011
• ISBN: 0307803228, 9780307803221
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / 20th Century; Political Science / American Government / National; Religion / Religion, Politics & State