Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
He was one of the most extraordinary figures in America political history, a great natural politician who looked, and often seemed to behave, like a caricature of the red-neck Southern politico, and yet he had become at the time of his assassination a serious rival to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency. In this “masterpiece of American biography” (New York Times), Huey Long stands wholly revealed, analyzed, and understood.