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213 notes Introduction 1. Times-Picayune (New Orleans), January 8, 1980. 2. Huey’s indirect effect might have been more important, particularly his role in pushing the Second New Deal further to the left than planned. 3. Robert Mann, Legacy to Power: Senator Russell Long of Louisiana (New York: Paragon House, 1992), 316. 4. Julian E. Zelizer, “Introduction to Roundtable: The U.S. Congress in the Twentieth Century,” Social Science History 24 (2000), 310. 5. Ibid., 311. Chapter 1 1. George Douth, Leaders in Profile: The United States Senate, The Ninety-Second Congress (New York: Sperr and Douth, 1972), 161; Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), 1474; Information Sheet, “Russell B. Long,” March 7, 1961, John F. Kennedy Presidential Papers, White House Staff Files, Lawrence O’Brien Files: Long, Russell, Louisiana, D, Folder 2, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston; Robert Mann, Legacy to Power : Senator Russell Long of Louisiana (New York: Paragon House, 1992), 33; Stan Opotowsky, The Longs of Louisiana (New York: Dutton, 1964), 194. 2. Mann, 33; Richard White, Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long (New York: Random House, 2006), 38. 3. The following discussion of Huey Long’s life and career is drawn from the best of the available biographies, notably T. Harry Williams, Huey Long (New York: Knopf, 1970); William Ivy Hair, The Kingfish and His Realm: The Life and Times of Huey P. Long (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991); Glen Jeansonne, Messiah of the Masses: Huey P. Long and the Great Depression (New York: Longman, 1993); and Richard White, Kingfish : The Reign of Huey P. Long (New York: Random House, 2006). Other important works on Huey and his politics include the relevant chapters in V. O. Key, Southern Politics in State and Nation (New York: Knopf, 1949), 156–182; Walter Bass and Jack DeVries, The Transformation of Southern Politics: Social Change and Political Consequence since 1945 (New York: Basic Books, 1976), 158-185; and Anthony J. Badger, New Deal/New South: An Anthony J. Badger Reader (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007), 1–30, 144–167. notes 214 4. Hair, 26; Mann, 33–36; Opotowsky, 195; Thomas Martin, Dynasty: The Longs of Louisiana (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1960), 190. 5. Mann, 36–37; Martin, 190; Richard White, 46–47. 6. Mann, 38, 40–41; Opotowsky, 195; Martin, 190. 7. For detailed analyses of the events surrounding Long’s assassination, see David Zinman, The Day Huey Long Was Shot, September 8, 1935 (New York: Ivan Obolensky, 1963); Hermann Deutsch, The Huey Long Murder Case (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963); and Ed Reed, Requiem for a Kingfish : The Strange and Unexplained Death of Huey P. Long (Baton Rouge, LA: Award Publications/E. Reed Organization, 1986). 8. Mann, xi–xiii; Zinman, 140–141. 9. For the long-term effects Huey had on Louisiana, see “Introduction: Longism and Louisiana Politics,” in Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics, by Michael L. Kurtz and Morgan D. Peoples (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990), 1–14; Wayne Parent, Inside the Carnival: Unmasking Louisiana Politics (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004); Anthony Badger, “‘When I Took the Oath of Office, I Took No Vow of Poverty’: Race, Corruption, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1928–2000,” in New Deal/New South: An Anthony J. Badger Reader (Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2007): 144–167. 10. Opotowsky, 195; Mann, 39. 11. Mann, 37–41. 12. Ibid., 43–44; R. White, 223–224. 13. Biographical Dictionary of the American Congress, 1474. 14. Mann, 45, 47–49, 52; Opotowsky, 195–196; Martin, 188. 15. Mann, 47–48, 53; Opotowsky, 195–197; Martin, 190. 16. Betty M. Field, “The Louisiana Scandals,” in The Age of the Longs, 1928–1960, ed. Edward F. Haas, vol. 8, The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History (Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, 2001), 277, 278. 17. Michael L. Kurtz and Morgan D. Peoples, Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics, Southern Biography Series (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990), 95–103. 18. Ibid., 54–56; Douth, 161; Opotowsky, 197; Martin, 190; Biographical Dictionary of the American Congress, 1474. 19. Kurtz and Peoples, 58–63; Opotowsky, 197; Martin, 190. 20. Kurtz and Peoples, 65–66. 21. On the Anti-Longs, see Mark T. Carleton, “Four Anti-Longites: A Tentative Assessment,” Louisiana History 30 (Summer 1989): 249–262 22. Ibid., 71–72. 23. Ibid., 69, 71...
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