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Book Synopsis The Age of the Longs by : Edward F. Haas
Download or read book The Age of the Longs written by Edward F. Haas and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays is an attempt to present the differing viewpoints that historians over the years have advanced about the Longs. This anthology, however, also seeks to show that for scholars the age of the Longs was more than a time that saw the dominance of the two powerful political siblings.
Book Synopsis Louisiana Hayride by : Harnett Thomas Kane
Download or read book Louisiana Hayride written by Harnett Thomas Kane and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dynasty written by Thomas Martin and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the careers of Huey and Earl Long and of their dynasty, briefly exploring the probable future of Huey's son, Senator Russell Long.
Book Synopsis The Longs of Louisiana by : Southeastern Louisiana University. Center for Regional Studies
Download or read book The Longs of Louisiana written by Southeastern Louisiana University. Center for Regional Studies and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Louisiana Since the Longs by : Michael L. Kurtz
Download or read book Louisiana Since the Longs written by Michael L. Kurtz and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 1998 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subjects include David Duke, illiteracy, and racial friction, as well as cajun music, Walker Percy, Louis Armstrong, female writers, and museums.
Book Synopsis Louisiana: A History by : Joe Gray Taylor
Download or read book Louisiana: A History written by Joe Gray Taylor and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1984-05-17 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest colonists through the latest Mardi Gras, Louisiana has had a history as exotic as that of any state. Even its political corruption--extending from French governors for whom office was exploitable property through the "Louisiana Hayride" following the death of Huey Long--seems to have had a glamorous side. Handing the colony of Louisiana back and forth between their empires, the French and Spanish left a legacy that lives in such forms as the architecture of the Vieux Carre and a civil law deriving from the Napoleonic Code. Acadian refugees, German farmers, black slaves and free blacks, along with Italians, Irish, and the "Kaintucks" who helped Andrew Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans added to the state's distinctiveness. Made rich by sugar cane, cotton, and Mississippi River commerce before the Civil War, Louisiana faced poverty afterward. Battles between Bourbon Democrats and Reconstruction Republicans followed, ultimately involving the Custom House Ring and the Knights of the White Camelia. By methods that remain controversial, Huey Long ended "government by gentlemen" with economic transformations other had sought. Gas, oil, and industrialization have additionally "Americanized" the state. Something of Louisiana's historic joie de vivre remains, however, to the gratification of residents and visitors alike; both will enjoy Joe Gray Taylor's telling of the story.
Download or read book Huey Long written by Suzanne LeVert and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a look at the controversial Louisiana statesman who fought, with sometimes questionable methods, to improve the quality of life of the poor
Book Synopsis Huey Long's Louisiana Hayride by : Harnett T. Kane
Download or read book Huey Long's Louisiana Hayride written by Harnett T. Kane and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1971-01-31 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively free-hitting narrative . . . written with a proper appreciation of the grotesque humor of many of its episodes . . . but also with the proper appreciation of the political significance . . . for the rest of the United States. New York Times Book Review This book deserves to be widely read. Library Journal Nothing like the regime of Huey Long has ever been enacted on American soil before. Only a patriot of the staunchest character could stand up to the power of Huey and the threats and reprisals which he used so freely. Those who were willing to do so paralleled the acts of America's bravest patriots at any stage of American history. Nearly all the books on this subject end with the death of Huey Long. Louisiana Hayride continues through the years of scandals which ended in my election in 1940. Huey's prediction that his successors would never be able to wield his great power without going to jail was born out by events described in this book. This is the story of the sowing of the wind, but the major part of the book is devoted to the reaping of the whirlwind. In this telling, Louisiana Hayride is unsurpassed. It is a story for all Americans. From the forward by Sam Houston Jones Governor, 1940-1944
Book Synopsis Why Lapin's Ears are Long and Other Tales of the Louisiana Bayou by : Sharon Arms Doucet
Download or read book Why Lapin's Ears are Long and Other Tales of the Louisiana Bayou written by Sharon Arms Doucet and published by Orchard Books (NY). This book was released on 1997 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three tales of Compáere Lapin who practices his tricks among the Creoles and the Cajuns of the Louisiana bayou.
Book Synopsis The Earl of Louisiana by : A. J. Liebling
Download or read book The Earl of Louisiana written by A. J. Liebling and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1959, A. J. Liebling, veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events that began with Governor Earl K. Long's commitment to a mental institution. Captivated by his subject, Liebling remained to write the fascinating yet tragic story of Uncle Earl's final year in politics. First published in 1961, The Earl of Louisiana recreates a stormy era in Louisiana politics and captures the style and personality of one of the most colorful and paradoxical figures in the state's history. This updated edition of the book includes a foreword by T. Harry Williams, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Huey Long: A Biography, and a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Jonathan Yardley that discusses Liebling's career and his most famous book from a twenty-first-century perspective.
Download or read book Earl K. Long written by Michael L. Kurtz and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1991-12-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a region famous for its flamboyant politicians, Earl K. Long was one of the most flamboyant of them all. This first full-scale biography of the former Louisiana governor explores his controversial life-style and his strong family ties, his raw humor and his political savvy, his abuse of power and his accomplishments in the areas of civil rights and public services. Michael L. Kurtz and Morgan D. Peoples provide new information from recently declassified FBI files concerning Earl's ties with organized crime figures, give the first comprehensive account of his stays in mental institutions in 1959, and offer factual information about his notorious relationship with the stripper Blaze Star. Based on more than two decades of research in a variety of sources, this important biography fills a serious gap in the history of modern Louisiana politics.
Book Synopsis The Kingfish and His Realm by : William Ivy Hair
Download or read book The Kingfish and His Realm written by William Ivy Hair and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Inside the Carnival by : Wayne Parent
Download or read book Inside the Carnival written by Wayne Parent and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With both an entertainer’s eye and a social scientist’s rigor, Wayne Parent subjects Louisiana’s politics to rational and empirical analysis, seeking and finding coherent reasons for the state’s well-known unique history. He resists resorting to vague hand-waving about “exoticism,” while at the same time he brings to life the juicy stories that illustrate his points. Pa rent’s main theme is that Louisiana’s ethnic mix, natural resources, and geography define a culture that in turn produces its unique political theater. He gives special attention to immigration patterns and Louisiana’s abundant supply of oil and gas, as well as to the fascinating variations in political temperaments in different parts of the state. Most important, he delivers thorough and concise explanations of Louisiana’s unusual legal system, odd election rules, overwrought constitutional history, convoluted voting patterns, and unmatched record of political corruption. In a new epilogue, Parent discusses how the hurricanes of 2005 will affect state politics and politicians as Louisiana struggles to regain its footing in the New South.
Book Synopsis Huey Long's Louisiana by : Allan P. Sindler
Download or read book Huey Long's Louisiana written by Allan P. Sindler and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1980-09-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an attempt to take the subject of Louisiana politics out from under the dominating shadow of Huey Long, the author focuses on the form and content of Louisiana's one-party bifactional politics from 1920 to 1952. The rise of the Long faction is treated within the framework of a continuing movement of class protest originating in 19th-century Louisiana and extending beyond Long's death in 1935.
Book Synopsis The Longs of Louisiana by : Stan Opotowsky
Download or read book The Longs of Louisiana written by Stan Opotowsky and published by New York : Dutton. This book was released on 1960 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the two generations of the Long family in Louisiana and of the three men, Huey, Earl and Russell Long, whose influence has dominated the political scene in the state.
Download or read book Every Man A King written by Huey P. Long and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huey Long (1893-1935) was one of the most extraordinary American politicians, simultaneously cursed as a dictator and applauded as a benefactor of the masses. A product of the poor north Louisiana hills, he was elected governor of Louisiana in 1928, and proceeded to subjugate the powerful state political hierarchy after narrowly defeating an impeachment attempt. The only Southern popular leader who truly delivered on his promises, he increased the miles of paved roads and number of bridges in Louisiana tenfold and established free night schools and state hospitals, meeting the huge costs by taxing corporations and issuing bonds. Soon Long had become the absolute ruler of the state, in the process lifting Louisiana from near feudalism into the modern world almost overnight, and inspiring poor whites of the South to a vision of a better life. As Louisiana Senator and one of Roosevelt's most vociferous critics, "The Kingfish," as he called himself, gained a nationwide following, forcing Roosevelt to turn his New Deal significantly to the left. But before he could progress farther, he was assassinated in Baton Rouge in 1935. Long's ultimate ambition, of course, was the presidency, and it was doubtless with this goal in mind that he wrote this spirited and fascinating account of his life, an autobiography every bit as daring and controversial as was The Kingfish himself.
Download or read book Louisiana written by Bennett H. Wall and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the lively, even raucous, history of Louisiana from before First Contact through the Elections of 2012, this sixth edition of the classic Louisiana history survey provides an engaging and comprehensive narrative of what is arguably America’s most colorful state. Since the appearance of the first edition of this classic text in 1984, Louisiana: A History has remained the best-loved and most highly regarded college-level survey of Louisiana on the market Compiled by some of the foremost experts in the field of Louisiana history who combine their own research with recent historical discoveries Includes complete coverage of the most recent events in political and environmental history, including the continued aftermath of Katrina and the 2010 BP oil spill Considers the interrelationship between Louisiana history and that of the American South and the nation as a whole Written in an engaging and accessible style complemented by more than a hundred photographs and maps
