Winner of the National Book Award

Alan Brinkley's study of two demagogues—Huey Long and Father Coughlin—whose vast popularity explains much about Depression-era America, is "impressively well-written history explicated by a master of the art." —Chicago Tribune
  • WINNER | 1982
    National Book Awards
© Eileen Barroso
Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University. His books include The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the National Book Award for History, and The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in The American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, the New York Times Book ReviewThe New York Review of Books, the Times Literary SupplementThe New Republic, and other publications. He lives in New York City. View titles by Alan Brinkley

About

Winner of the National Book Award

Alan Brinkley's study of two demagogues—Huey Long and Father Coughlin—whose vast popularity explains much about Depression-era America, is "impressively well-written history explicated by a master of the art." —Chicago Tribune

Awards

  • WINNER | 1982
    National Book Awards

Author

© Eileen Barroso
Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University. His books include The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the National Book Award for History, and The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in The American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, the New York Times Book ReviewThe New York Review of Books, the Times Literary SupplementThe New Republic, and other publications. He lives in New York City. View titles by Alan Brinkley

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