Author(s): Alan Brinkley
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 8
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Language: English
Date Published: 1983-08-12
Dimensions: 129.54 x 200.66 x 22.86mm
Publication City/Country: New York, United States
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed
Illustrations: illustrations, bibliography, index

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 in the early years of the Great Depression to become the two most successful leaders of national political dissidence of their era. *Winner of the American Book Award for History*