Volume 29, Number 14 · September 23, 1982
Pennies from Heaven
By C. Vann Woodward
Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and The Great Depression
by Alan Brinkley
Knopf, 348 pp., $18.50
It is not often that we get a book as good as this one about demagogic public figures like Huey Long and Father Coughlin. In most works on such leaders the simplicities are too often allowed to obscure the complexities and the obvious is permitted to overshadow the ambivalent. Yet if it were not for their complexity and ambivalence these people would hardly be worth bothering about. Nor would they likely have attained the conspicuous place in history they did.
Review, 2053 words
To read the full text of this piece, please choose one of the following options:
|
If you are already a subscriber to the Review's electronic edition, please sign in: |
To subscribe to the electronic edition, please press the button below. |
To purchase access to this article for $3, please press the button below. |