Voices of Protest
Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Church, Church & State, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government
| Author: | Alan Brinkley | ISBN: | 9780307803221 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | August 10, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
| Author: | Alan Brinkley |
| ISBN: | 9780307803221 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | August 10, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Language: | English |
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*
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*
