For nostalgic reasons: https://web.archive.org/web/20050315234018/http://www.innocence.com/games/men-of-action/Main/HomePage #HueyLong #TTRPG

"...it is not necessary or reasonable to have wealth piled up beyond that point where we cannot prevent poverty among the masses." - Huey Long 1934

#SocialistSunday #HueyLong #1934 #GreatDepression #LongFight #Struggle

Rebecca West on Huey Long (from the T. Harry Williams bio):

"Another English visitor, Rebecca West, was not so favorably impressed. She saw the cold intelligence that Huey concealed behind his buffonery--he was 'the most formidable kind of brer fox'--but she also saw something dangerous lurking within him, a realization of destiny barely concealed coupled with a vitality that was almost animal."

Does that sound familiar, folks?

More here from Schlesinger's THE POLITICS OF UPHEAVAL. (West knew Huey's danger. H.G. Wells didn't! Listen to women!)

#hueylong #Rebeccawest #demagogue

Huey Long, as I have learned reading T. Harry Williams's very long and quite excellent biography, was many things. Both a deeply problematic tyrant and a man who used brute force to usher in unprecedented progressive policies. What I did not know, however, was how he used his influence and connections to get Hattie Wyatt Caraway elected to the Senate in 1932. The first woman who served.a full six year term.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_Wyatt_Caraway

#hattiewyattcaraway #hueylong