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

The study of two demagogues, whose vast popularity explains much about Depression-era America. This is a book about two men: Huey P. Long, a 1st-term US Senator from the red-clay, piney woods country of northern Louisiana; & Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from an industrial suburb near Detroit. From modest origins, they rose together at the beginning of the Depression to become the two most successful leaders of national political dissidence of the era.

Preface

Prologue

The kingfish ascending

Beyond Louisiana

Crisis & renewal

The radio priest

"Roosevelt or ruin"

Searching for power

The dissident ideology

Organizing

Followers

Uneasy alliances

The last phase

Epilogue

Appendices 1-3

Notes

Locations of Manuscript Collections

Index

• Author
• Alan Brinkley

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 384

• Publisher
• Vintage/Random House (NY)

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780394716282

• Characters
• Huey Long

• Genres
• history, politics, biography, religion

• Release date
• 1983