Winner of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography
Winner of the 1970 National Book Award in History
Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award
A 2009 AudioFile Best Book of the Year for Biography
He was one of the most extraordinary figures in American political history—a great natural politician who looked, and often seemed to behave, like a caricature of the redneck Southern
politico, and yet had become at the time of his assassination a serious rival to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency. In this “masterpiece of American biography” (New York Times
Book Review), Huey Long stands wholly revealed, analyzed, and understood.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“A brilliant, bawdy, unforgettable picture of the most colorful as well as the most dangerous man to engage in American politics.” —Washington Post
“I know of no better American political biography.” —Saturday Review
“An intimate biography, the kind to savor. Long, an unlikely mix of self-interest and altruism, led a life of scheming and intrigue worthy of becoming a novel. Many Louisianans populate the story, and Tom Weiner gives them perfect Southern accents…Weiner employs a sharp, authoritative tone for Long, telling his amusing and sometimes apocryphal stories. The combination of excellent material, skillful composition, and Weiner’s engaging narration makes this audiobook easy to recommend.” —AudioFile
“T. Harry Williams has made pretty darn sure that his is going to be the definitive biography of Long...A king-sized portrayal of the extraordinary Kingfish.” —Kirkus Reviews
Thomas Harry Williams (1909–1979) was an award-winning author and historian who garnered numerous academic honors. He is perhaps best known for his American Civil War studies
and his 1969 work Huey Long, the definitive study of Huey Pierce Long, Jr., which won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Other acclaimed works include Lincoln and the
Radicals (1941), P.G.T. Beauregard, Napoleon in Gray (1955), Romance and Realism in Southern Politics (1961), McClellan, Sherman, and Grant (1962), and posthumously
History of American Wars (1981). In 1964, he received the Harry S. Truman Award in Civil War History. Upon his death, the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors established
the T. Harry Williams Chair of American History and the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History.
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