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The Kingfish: A Biography of Huey P. Long
by Webster Smith
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Monterey, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1933. First Edition. 8vo. 286 pp. Red cloth with black lettering in red and black photo-illustrated dustjacket. Book is in near fine condition with slight dustiness to upper edge of text block; the dustjacket is in very good condition with triangle loss of paper to lower front edge; wear to extremities; agetoning. Huey Pierce Long Jr. (1893 - 1935), known also by the byname "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. Long was a left-wing populist member of the Democratic Party and rose to national prominence during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, which Long deemed insufficiently radical.
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- Bookseller
- Carpe Diem Fine Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21854
- Title
- The Kingfish: A Biography of Huey P. Long
- Author
- Webster Smith
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
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Monterey, California
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Carpe Diem Fine Books offers a discriminating selection of out-of-print, signed and unusual books in all fields – with an emphasis on the history and literature of California and the West. Proprietors James Bryant and Mary Hill have served an international clientele of private collectors and libraries since 1995. Their book gallery, located in a charming 1930's Carmel stone building just steps from the Robert Louis Stevenson House in historic Old Monterey, features a constantly changing inventory - from the classics to the unexpected.
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