Voices of protest

Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression

by Alan Brinkley

1982 348 pages eng

The study of two demagogues, whose vast popularity explains much about Depression-era America. 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 ind…