Louisiana Hayride, The American Rehearsal for Dictatorship

By Harnett T. Kane

Book Overview

This volume documents the rise to power, the political maneuverings, and the assassination of Louisiana 1/2s Kingfish, Huey Long. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B003VZTRQO
• Release Date: January 1941
• Publisher: William Morrow and Co.
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A helpful history of post-Huey Long Louisiana.

While the author's virulent anti-Long bias is evident throughout the book, Long himself disappears after the first hundred or so pages. This book is most valuable in providing an explanation of what happened in Louisiana after Long's death, i.e. how the men he surrounded himself with were unable to build on his legacy (due mainly to their own criminal natures). Read against T. Harry Williams' "Huey Long," a balanced picture of the man would probably emerge.