The study of two demagogues, whose vast popularity explains much about Depression-era America. This is a book about two men: Huey P. Long, a 1st-term US Senator from the red-clay, piney woods country of northern Louisiana; & Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from an industrial suburb near Detroit. From modest origins, they rose together at the beginning of the Depression to become the two most successful leaders of national political dissidence of the era. Preface Prologue The kingfish ascending Beyond Louisiana Crisis & renewal The radio priest "Roosevelt or ruin" Searching for power The dissident ideology Organizing Followers Uneasy alliances The last phase Epilogue Appendices 1-3 Notes Locations of Manuscript Collections Index