His new book, American Populist: Huey Long of Louisiana ... and Frederick the Great, and Thomas Dixon Jr.’s “racist novels of Reconstruction.” He was quite taken with Renaissance artist ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Sept. 8, 1935, Louisiana Sen. Huey P. Long was doing what Huey P. Long did in his heyday — running the state — when a ...

Schlesinger, Jr.; the late journalist I.F. Stone; and the late author Robert Penn Warren, whose magnificent novel All the King’s Men was inspired by the rise and fall of Huey Long.

A grisly discovery last week on the Huey P. Long Bridge led to the arrest of the victim's girlfriend and her son and mother, East Baton Rouge Sheriff's arrest warrants said. Coshelia Conley ...

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.