Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin & the Great Depression

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; & 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.
Preface
Prologue
The kingfish ascending
Beyond Louisiana
Crisis & renewal
The radio priest
"Roosevelt or ruin"
Searching for power
The dissident ideology
Organizing
Followers
Uneasy alliances
The last phase
Epilogue
Appendices 1-3
Notes
Locations of Manuscript Collections
Index