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Outrageous demagogue or charismatic visionary? In this particular powerful new biography, Richard D. White, Jr., brings Huey Long to life in every his blazing, controversial glory. As soon as he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin's bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded basically dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A guy of shameless ambition and ruthless vindictiveness, Huey orchestrated elections, hired and fired thousands at will, and deployed their state militia as his personal police. Yet, paradoxically, as governor and later as senator, Huey did more good for the state's poor and uneducated than any politician before or since. With Kingfish, White has crafted a balanced, lucid, and absolutely spellbinding portrait of the life span and times of the very most incendiary figure in American politics.
