Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression - Hardcover

Brinkley, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394522419 ISBN 13: 9780394522418

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1982

Synopsis

This analysis of two powerful American demogogues traces the shaping of their political ideologies and strategies and the reasons behind their ultimate failure

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Review

"This uncommonly good book helps to mark the maturation of the 20th-century American historiography."--David M Kennedy, The New Republic

"History explicated by a master of the art... impressively well written in addition to being topical." --The Chicago Tribune Book World

"It is not often that we get a book as good as this one about demagogic figures like Huey Long and Father Coughlin....A sensititve and subtle work moderated by grace and restraint....Brinkley's findings add to our knowledge of the leaders themselves, but more significantly to the nature of their appeal, their methods...and their relations with President Roosevelt....It would be well for American historiography should shis book mark a turn in predominant fashions." --The New York Review of Books

About the Author

Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University. His previous books include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the National Book Award for History, and The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in The American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, and other publications. He lives in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394522419
• ISBN 13: 9780394522418
• Binding: Hardcover