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    Voices of Protest

    Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression

    Author Alan Brinkley
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    Knopf | Vintage
    On sale Aug 12, 1983 | 384 Pages | 9780394716282
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    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 Review, The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, and other publications. He lives in New York City. View titles by Alan Brinkley
    "This uncommonly good book helps to mark the maturation of the 20th-century American historiography."--David M Kennedy, The New Republic

    "History explicated by a master of the art... impressively well written in addition to being topical." --The Chicago Tribune Book World

    "It is not often that we get a book as good as this one about demagogic figures like Huey Long and Father Coughlin....A sensititve and subtle work moderated by grace and restraint....Brinkley's findings add to our knowledge of the leaders themselves, but more significantly to the nature of their appeal, their methods...and their relations with President Roosevelt....It would be well for American historiography should shis book mark a turn in predominant fashions." --The New York Review of Books 

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    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

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    • 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 Review, The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, and other publications. He lives in New York City. View titles by Alan Brinkley

    Praise

    "This uncommonly good book helps to mark the maturation of the 20th-century American historiography."--David M Kennedy, The New Republic

    "History explicated by a master of the art... impressively well written in addition to being topical." --The Chicago Tribune Book World

    "It is not often that we get a book as good as this one about demagogic figures like Huey Long and Father Coughlin....A sensititve and subtle work moderated by grace and restraint....Brinkley's findings add to our knowledge of the leaders themselves, but more significantly to the nature of their appeal, their methods...and their relations with President Roosevelt....It would be well for American historiography should shis book mark a turn in predominant fashions." --The New York Review of Books 

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