Voices of Protest
Book description
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…
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This groundbreaking and wonderfully written study of two “protest” leaders during the Great Depression of the 1930s in the United States shows us what happens when truly hard times hit ordinary people, and what sort of leaders they then turn to. Brinkley brilliantly chronicles the rise of Louisiana politician Huey Long, the “Kingfish”, from obscurity in the poor Jim Crow south to becoming, by the time he was assassinated in 1935, the most significant political threat to the popular President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Long’s calls for wealth redistribution, contempt for traditional elites, and disregard for democratic institutions, make him an…
From Moshik's list on leadership and history.
During the Great Depression, no other public figures stirred the political waters the way Huey Long and FatherCoughlin did. The political "Kingfish" of Louisiana and the "Radio Priest" from Royal Oak, Michigan, gave voice to demands to "share the wealth" and for economic justice. This book tells their fascinating and disturbing stories, and in doing so reminds us of how deep the strivings for economic equality and social justice run through our history.
From Charles' list on the struggle for equality in the USA.
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