Many books and academic papers have been written about Long’s fascinating life and career. T. Harry Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Huey Long and Richard White’s Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P.

Louisiana’s Huey Long built his remarkable career as governor and U.S. Senator on a platform of social reform and justice, all the while employing graft and corruption to get what he wanted.

Huey Long was the first documentary I ever made that focused on one person's life to animate an entire film. History, as the great essayist Thomas Carlyle once said, is in essence really biography.