Research Catalog

Title

The age of the Longs : Louisiana, 1928-1960 / edited by Edward F. Haas.

Publication

Lafayette, La. : Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Haas, Edward F.
• University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Center for Louisiana Studies publisher.

Description

xii, 527 p.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

The Louisiana Purchase bicentennial series in Louisiana history ; v. 8

Uniform Title

Louisiana Purchase bicentennial series in Louisiana history v. 8.

Subjects

• Since 1865
• Biographies
• Governors > Louisiana > Biography
• Long, Earl Kemp, 1895-1960
• Long, Huey Pierce, 1893-1935
• Louisiana > Social conditions > 20th century
• Louisiana > Economic conditions > 20th century
• Louisiana > Politics and government > 20th century

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Portraits on lining papers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• PART I, Louisiana in the Great Depression: Louisiana and the Great Depression / by Betty M. Field -- Local reaction to the Great Depression in New Orleans, 1929-1933 / by Roman Heleniak.
• PART II, Huey P. Long : The character of the Kingfish: Huey Long : American dictator / by Hodding Carter -- The messiah of the rednecks / by Arthur M. Schlesinger -- The gentleman from Louisiana : demagogue or Democrat / by T. Harry Williams.
• PART III, The Share-Our-Wealth movement and its critics: Challenge to the New Deal : Huey P. Long and the redistribution of national wealth / by Glen Jeansonne -- My first days in the White House : the presidential fantasy of Huey Pierce Long / by Edward F. Haas -- Huey Long, the Share Our Wealth movement and the limits of depression dissidence / by Alan Brinkley -- Huey Long and the Communists / by Edward F. Haas.
• PART IV, The New Deal in Louisiana: The New Deal in Louisiana / by John Robert Moore -- In a sense experimental : the Civilian Conservation Corps in Louisiana (Part I) / by Hubert Humphreys -- In a sense experimental : the Civilian Conservation Corps in Louisiana (Part II) / by Hubert Humphreys -- Old and new worlds in the New Deal resettlement program : two Louisiana projects / by Donald Holley -- The Federal Writers' Project for Blacks in Louisiana / by Ronnie W. Clayton.
• PART V, Business and education: The stormy career of a radio maverick : W.K. Henderson of KWKH / by C. Joseph Pusateri -- New Orleans commerce : the establishment of the permanent World Trade Mart / by Gary A. Bolding -- The New Orleans seaway movement / by Gary A. Bolding -- Confronting the dilemma : Charles S. Johnson's study of Louisiana's Black schools / by Phillip J. Johnson.
• PART VI, The Longites after the Kingfish: The crash of the Long machine and its aftermath / by W.V. Holloway -- The Louisiana scandals / by Betty M. Field -- New Orleans on the half-shell : the Maestri Era, 1936-1946 / by Edward F. Haas.
• PART VII, Louisiana in World War II: The Louisiana maneuvers : practice for war / by G. Patrick Murray -- The man who won the war : Andrew Jackson Higgins / by John A. Heitmann -- History, archaeology, and the German prisoner of war experience in rural Louisiana : the Ruston Alien Internment Facility, 1943-45 / by Joseph M. Scalia -- Prisoner of war labor in the sugar cane fields of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana: 1943-1944 / by Joseph T. Butler, Jr. -- Prisoners like us : German POWs encounter Louisiana's African America / by Matthew J. Schott.
• PART VIII, The Anti-Longs and the emergence of reform: Sam Houston Jones and the Revolution of 1940 / by Glen Jeansonne -- Sam Jones, Jimmie Noe, and the Reform Alliance, 1940-1942 / by Jerry P. Sanson -- Four Anti-Longites : a tentative assessment / by Mark T. Carleton -- Louisiana Progressivism and the reform experience : administrative reorganization in Louisiana, 1940-1948 / by Charles J. Pellegrin -- Government by the civics book : the administration of Robert F. Kennon 1952-1956 / by Michael L. Kurtz -- De Lesseps Morrison : why he couldn't become governor of Louisiana / by Glen Jeansonne -- De Lesseps S. Morrison and the governorship : a reassessment / by Edward F. Haas.
• PART IX, Earl K. Long: Earl Kemp Long : the man from Pea Patch Farm / by Morgan D. Peoples -- Insiders and outsiders : Earl K. Long and the media, May-July 1959 / by Michael S. Martin -- Earl Long's political relations with the City of New Orleans: 1948-1960 / by Michael L. Kurtz -- Political corruption and organized crime in Louisiana : the FBI files on Earl Long / by Michael L. Kurtz.
• PART X, The crisis of race in Louisiana : end of an era: Leander Perez : a Southern demagogue and reformer / by Glen Jeansonne -- Racism and Longism in Louisiana : the 1959-1960 gubernatorial elections / by Glen Jeansonne.

ISBN

1887366407

OCLC

• 46979834
• SCSB-11794425

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library