Every Man a King (autobiography)

Every Man a King (1933) is an autobiography by Huey 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]

This article is about book. For the song, see Every Man a King (song).
Every Man a King
AuthorHuey Long
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectLife of Huey Long
GenreAutobiography
PublisherNational Book Company
Publication date
1933
Media typeBook
Pages343
ISBN9780306806957
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Reception

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 simply gave the rest away for free.[3]

References
  1. "Excerpts From Huey Long's Autobiography". Social Security Administration. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  2. "Excerpts From Huey Long's "Second Autobiography"". Social Security Administration. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  3. Brinkley (2011) [1983], p. 70.

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