Peapatch Politics the Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics

Academic authors have sifted historical records to reach a variety of opinions on Huey Long and Earl Long and other politicians of their era but heres Bill Dodd Earls Lieutenant Governor who was there at Earl Longs side as a participant and an eye-witness who was a master at the game of Louisiana politics and who will explain the ground rules of the game and separate fact from much of the fiction that was fed by the media during the turbulent Long period. Chapter titles include: 1) The Why of Louisiana Politics: An Introduction 2) The Long Family 3) The Earl Long I Knew 4) Miss Blanche 5) The 47 Campaign and How I Got on the Earl Long Ticket 6) The Truth About the Tidelands 7) Russell B. Long 8) Observations About Several of My Statewide Campaigns 9) Earl Longs Flunkies: Hangers-on and Court Jesters 10) Louisiana Kingmakers 11) Humor in Politics 12) Earl and Hueys Louisiana: A Final Word