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Every Man a King (autobiography)

Every Man a King

Author	Huey Long
Language	English
Subject	Life of Huey Long
Genre	Autobiography
Publisher	National Book Company
Publication date	1933
Publication place	United States
Media type	Book
Pages	343
ISBN	9780306806957

This article is part of a series about Huey Long
Political views Early life Early career In culture Governor of Louisiana 1924 campaign 1928 election State Capitol Cotton-Holiday U.S. Senator from Louisiana Tenure Chaco War Share Our Wealth Assassination American Progress Every Man a King (book) Every Man a King (song) My First Days in the White House
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Every Man a King (1933) is an autobiographybyHuey Long, who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana and as a member of the United States Senate. Aged 39 at the time, Long would be assassinated two years later. The book explores Long's rise to power.^[1] Long's posthumously published My First Days in the White House is sometimes referred to as his "second autobiography".^[2]

Reception[edit]

The book was largely criticized by the press. The New York Times Book Review claimed "There is hardly a law of English usage or a rule of English grammar that its author does not break somewhere." In the Saturday Review, Allan Nevins wrote that Long "is unbalanced, vulgar, in many ways ignorant, and quite reckless." The book had difficulty selling; only 20,000 of the 100,000 printed were sold. Long gave the rest away for free.^[3]

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Bibliography[edit]

• Brinkley, Alan (2011) [1982]. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 9780307803221.

External links[edit]

• Excerpts published by the Social Security Administration

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