Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this work
describes the life of one of the most extraordinary figures in American
political history. Huey Long was a great natural politician who looked,
and often seemed to behave, like a caricature of the red-neck Southern
politico, and yet 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 Book Review], Huey Long
stands wholly revealed, analyzed, and understood.