Nearly a century after his death, the Kingfish is making a comeback. Fans of the late Louisiana politician Huey P. Long can be found across the partisan divide, with populist conservatives and ...
Eight bridges in Louisiana are among 68 across the country that the National Transportation Safety Board identified as being ...
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.
When Huey Long was an emerging backwoods politician, he acquired a secretary and a favorite in petite, 16-year-old Alice Lee Grosjean. Now 33 and an apparently permanent fixture on Louisiana’s ...
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.
Some of the nation’s most famous bridges, including four that carry rail or rail transit traffic, are on a list of 68 the ...
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.