Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression |
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| Authors: | Brinkley, Alan |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | HIS036060, REL084000, POL030000 |
| ISBN: | 9780307803221, Related ISBNs: 0307803228, 0394522419, 0394716280, 9780307803221, 9780394522418 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 384, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Synopsis: 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*
*Winner of the American Book Award for History*
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