Huey Long's Louisiana Hayride: The American Rehearsal for Dictatorship1928-1940

by Harnett T. Kane

Book Overview

A lively free-hitting
narrative . . . written with a proper appreciation of the grotesque humor of
many of its episodes . . . but also with the proper appreciation of the
political significance . . . for the rest of the United States.

New York Times Book Review
This book deserves to be widely read.

Library Journal
Nothing like the regime of Huey Long has ever been enacted
on American soil before. Only a patriot of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882896180
• ISBN13: 9780882896182
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"

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.