Voices of Protest
Author | : Alan Brinkley |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2011-08-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780307803221 |
ISBN-13 | : 0307803228 |
Rating | : 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Download or read book Voices of Protest written by Alan Brinkley and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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*