{"product_id":"voices-of-protest-isbn-9780394716282","title":"Voices of Protest","description":"The study of two great demagogues in American history--Huey P. Long, a first-term United States Senator from the red-clay, piney-woods country of nothern Louisiana; and Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from an industrial suburb near Detroit. Award-winning historian Alan Brinkely describes their modest origins and their parallel rise together in the early years of the Great Depression to become the two most successful leaders of national political dissidence of their era. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*Winner of the American Book Award for History*\"This uncommonly good book helps to mark the maturation of the 20th-century American historiography.\"--David M Kennedy, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"History explicated by a master of the art... impressively well written in addition to being topical.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Tribune Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is not often that we get a book as good as this one about demagogic figures like Huey Long and Father Coughlin....A sensititve and subtle work moderated by grace and restraint....Brinkley's findings add to our knowledge of the leaders themselves, but more significantly to the nature of their appeal, their methods...and their relations with President Roosevelt....It would be well for American historiography should shis book mark a turn in predominant fashions.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan Brinkley\u003c\/b\u003e is the Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eVoices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Award for History, and \u003ci\u003eThe Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe American Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. He lives in New York City.Winner of the American Book Award for History","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302390845669,"sku":"NP9780394716282","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780394716282.jpg?v=1767743513","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/voices-of-protest-isbn-9780394716282","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}