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...said, New Orleans' notorious Abraham L. (Abe) Shushan, ex-convict and onetime Huey Long henchman, agreed to write off a $3,000 loan to Bilbo in return for an assist on an $80,000 income-tax suit. In 1941, Terry recalled, Bilbo had accepted $1,500 to get an aged Natchez drug addict a special morphine prescription from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics...
...large part, to the fact that the popular writers seemed to dramatize without thinking, and the unpopular writers to think without dramatizing. Nearest U.S. approach to a good combination of thought and drama was Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, a novel about the Huey Long regime. Among the best of the rest: Conrad Richter's The Fields, Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding, Christina Stead's Letty Fox, Sholem Asch's East River, Jerome Weidman's Too Early to Tell...
...facts are that if the South is left alone to solve the [race] problem we can expect just such hoodlums as the Ku Kluxers, Columbians . . . or Huey Long to solve it. . . . If we are to have freedom and a democracy it will come through Government interference and outside support to the few really good leaders such as Governor Arnall...
...jovial Eric von Stroheim) denounced Mussolini, of course, but he also said: "You cannot govern without exercising dictatorial power." His program was vague. On domestic questions it was a hash of the ideas of Thomas Jefferson, Henry Wallace and Franklin D. Roosevelt, but with a strong flavor of Huey Long. Playing no favorites, Giannini hailed the Republican sweep in the U.S. as a victory of "the uomo qualunque in America." Sometimes his appeal was even broader: "We place our hope in the immense power of love, which is the only real force in the world...
...tells it, the story is not Jack Burden's, it is Willie Stark's, the mock-heroic man of the people whose earnestness "to do good" is corrupted by lust for power. Critics of Warren have pointed out the close parallels between the careers of Willie Stark and Huey Long and have claimed that Warren has exalted Long by his treatment of Stark's character. This criticism is beside the point. The novel in no-wise constitutes an apologia for Long or for the South and to say that it does is to ignore the meta-physical side of Warren...