Volume 14, Number 4 · February 26, 1970
Huey
By Marshall Frady
Huey Long
by T. Harry Williams
Knopf, 876 pp., $12.50
To a number of discriminating souls in his day, Huey Pierce Long was an unspeakable vulgarity. In fact, people of social and political gentility frequently could not even bring themselves to utter his name, referring to him, as if briefly lifting something vile between two fingertips, as merely, 'That man….' A Louisiana judge during Long's governorship sputtered once in desperation that the man had 'a malformed or diseased mind,' and when Long was in the Senate, Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes, delivered the memorable epithet that the gentleman from Louisiana suffered from 'halitosis of the intellect.'
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