![]() ![]() He asked George Allen to act as his agent in New York in dealing with printers… The first copies came off the press… in resplendent gold jackets which bore five pictures of the author. Williams, writes: “Long had a manuscript in final form by the summer of 1933. In this scarce first edition of his autobiography, Every Man a King, Long boldly tells his own story to counter the “garbled accounts of my career.” As Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Long’s biographer, Thomas H. To many during the Depression, Huey Long was “a political messiah… To others he was a dictator-in-waiting, described by Mencken as a backwoods Mussolini… When it came to Huey Long, who called himself ‘Kingfish,’ there was no middle ground” ( New York Times). ![]() senator for Washington the same year Long was elected U.S. Senator,” a scarce association copy with the owner inkstamp of Homer T. Long, published only two years before his assassination, inscribed by him, “Regards, Huey P. Octavo, original orange cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition of the colorful autobiography of Huey P. LONG, FIRST EDITION OF HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, EVERY MAN A KING, 1933 ![]()
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