Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression 1st Vintage Books ed Edition

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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.

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"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

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

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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.

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.

Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage; 1st Vintage Books ed edition (August 12, 1983)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0394716280
ISBN-13: 978-0394716282
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.9 x 8 inches
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M. Schwarz

Highly readable, highly relevant

Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2017

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A remarkably clear and good read for a more academic than popular history. I learned an enormous amount about a time as fascinating for its differences to the present as its similarities.

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Dissident Movements in America - fascinating topic

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2006

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Praise has been heaped on Alan Brinkley's book in the past, and after reading it, I fully concur with the accolades that past reviewers have granted to this book.

Brinkley sets the tone for his book from the title - "Voices of Protest". He focuses the book on the two main characters (and I do mean characters) present in the subtitle - Huey P. Long and Father Charles E. Couglin.

Brinkley treats us to a brief biographical sketch of each of these flamboyant and ebulent personalities. Long in his silk pajamas receiving a German envoy, and Coughlin stripping down from his clerical garb to a sweat soaked politician are just a couple of the many images that grab the reader during the progression of this discourse.

After explaining who these men were, he goes into their social & political movements - a fascinating tale of Long's "Share Our Wealth" plan, and an equally rich telling of Coughlin's "Golden Hour of the Little Flower". Brinkley has chosen the title Voices of Protest because both of these movements became major political dissident movements in Depression-era America.

Brinkley does a fantastic job of explaining, in historiographic terms, why these movements gathered such steam and were able to become massive social movements rather than just political fodder. In addition to detailing these two major oppositional voices to FDR's new deal, Brinkley also gives us a chapter on other movements that were equally critical of the New Deal, but not nearly as widespread.

I found it especially interesting how Brinkley explained that Long was the primary reason why both of these movements flourished - after his assassination in 1935, both movements really seemed to fall apart.

I enjoyed this book tremendously - it gives new insight into the way that political dissonance took hold in the 1930's and what a big part of American society these two political movements became.

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MFM

Great history . Well written

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2019

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This scholarly and readable history has much relevance as we face the resurgence of fascism in America. It recreates the power of the movement in prewar America and the power of great political leader in reducing its seductive pull.

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Tom Diaz

Some of the King's Men

Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2016

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A fine overview of two largely forgotten but decidedly relevant political demagogues from the 1930s. If you want to get some insight on what drives the politics of populism, this is a good place to begin. If the writing were a bit more refined, I would give it five stars.

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John E. Banks

too positive

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2019

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I felt the author was too forgiving--too positive--about these demagogues.

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