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Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression
Contributor(s): Brinkley, Alan (Author)
ISBN: 0394716280     ISBN-13: 9780394716282
Publisher: Vintage
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 1983
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Annotation: This is a book about two remarkable men-Huey P. Long, a first-term United States Senator from the red-clay, piney woods country of northern Louisiana; and Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from an industrial suburb near Detroit. From modest origins, they rose together in the early years of the Great Depression to become the two most successful leaders of national political dissidence of their era.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - 20th Century
- Political Science | American Government - National
- Religion | Religion, Politics & State
Dewey: 973.916
LCCN: 83003496
Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.22" W x 8.02" (0.80 lbs) 384 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1930's
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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Publisher Description:
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*