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This novel tells what was behind the show in a southern state like Louisiana with a governor like Huey Long. It is a tough, triumphant novel...
...second term ended, the state was all but bankrupt. But Mississippi sent him to the U.S. Senate, sent him back again in 1940. Bilbo always told the poor, ill-educated, farm-bound "peckerwoods" what they wanted to hear, the way they wanted to hear it. Few Americans since Huey Long had turned men's fear, prejudice, cupidity and hunger for drama so successfully to his own ends...
...remained the beau ideal of the Senate. He had no fear of political consequences; in later years he did not even campaign for office. There was dignity and gallantry about the homely little man. Sometimes, carried away by lost causes, he attacked his adversaries physically. Once he plunged at Huey Long -because the Kingfish had taken the liberty of calling him by his first name...
With their entire capital of $367, the newlyweds went to Carter's home town of Hammond, La. to start a daily. They lived over the shop, bartered ads for meat and vegetables, used their struggling paper to fight Huey Long tooth & nail. Theirs was the only district in the state that never sent a Long henchman to Congress...
Forthwith, Huey climbed out on a limb over Memorial Drive, felt an old prediction coming on, and said...