num_pages: 384
description: The study of two demagogues, whose vast popularity explains much about Depression-era America. This is a book about two men: Huey P. Long, a 1st-term US Senator from the red-clay, piney woods country of northern Louisiana; &amp; Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from an industrial suburb near Detroit. From modest origins, they rose together at the beginning of the Depression to become the two most successful leaders of national political dissidence of the era.PrefacePrologueThe kingfish ascending Beyond Louisiana Crisis &amp; renewalThe radio priest"Roosevelt or ruin"Searching for powerThe dissident ideologyOrganizing Followers Uneasy alliancesThe last phaseEpilogueAppendices 1-3NotesLocations of Manuscript CollectionsIndex
language: English
title: Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin & the Great Depression
titlecomplete: Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin & the Great Depression
characters: Huey Long, Charles Coughlin
genres: 20th Century, American, History, American History, Religion, Read For School, Politics, The United States Of America, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 472
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Award
category: History (Hardcover)
publisher: Vintage/Random House (NY)