Best huey long biography

1969 biography by T. Harry Williams

Huey Long (1969) is a biography of Louisiana Governor and US Senator Huey Long written by historian T. Harry Williams.^[1] The work was well received, winning a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.

Writing

Williams spent 12 years writing and researching Huey Long in order to write the 896-page work.^[2][1] Due to the lack of documents regarding Long, Williams collected oral history.

Beginning in 1955, Williams interviewed those who had known Long.^[1] He outlined his work in a 1959 address to the Southern Historical Association.^[3]

The work is sympathetic to Long, painting him as a tragic figure and emphasizing his leftist leanings over his often claimed fascist tendencies.

According to Kirkus Reviews, Williams "made pretty darn sure that his is going to be the definitive biography of Long."^[1] Williams reportedly regarded Huey Long as "the ultima