Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression - Softcover

Brinkley, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394716280 ISBN 13: 9780394716282

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1983

Inhaltsangabe

The study of two great demagogues in American history--Huey P. Long, a first-term United States Senator from the red-clay, piney-woods country of nothern Louisiana; and Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from an industrial suburb near Detroit. Award-winning historian Alan Brinkely describes their modest origins and their parallel rise together in the early years of the Great Depression to become the two most successful leaders of national political dissidence of their era. 

*Winner of the American Book Award for History*

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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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 industrial suburb near Detroit. From modest origins, they rose together in the early years of the Great Depression to become the two most successful leaders of national political dissidence of their era.

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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1983
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0394716280
• ISBN 13: 9780394716282
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 374
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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