Overview
Hattie and Huey whisks us back to hot afternoons and dusty roads of Depression America to take us through a series of political events that lasted only eight days. But for Arkansas--and for the South--this week and a day grew into one of those legends of folklore. In 1932 Huey P. Long came to the state to help elect his seatmate, Hattie Caraway, to a full six-year term in the U.S. Senate. The campaign was unprecedented and impossible, but it happened. And she won--the first woman in U.S history to be elected to a full six-year term in the Senate.Synopsis
Hattie and Huey whisks us back to hot afternoons and dusty roads of Depression America to take us through a series of political events that lasted only eight days. But for Arkansas--and for the South--this week and a day grew into one of those legends of folklore. In 1932 Huey P. Long came to the state to help elect his seatmate, Hattie Caraway, to a full six-year term in the U.S. Senate. The campaign was unprecedented and impossible, but it happened. And she won--the first woman in U.S history to be elected to a full six-year term in the Senate.
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This is the account of eight days in 1932 when Senator Huey Long of Louisiana campaigned in Arkansas for the election of Hattie Caraway to the US Senate. Caraway won, and became the first woman elected to the Senate. But her stroke of genius was in bringing Long, the famed populist, to depression-stricken Arkansas, where he galvanized the poor and unemployed. A fascinating picture of Southern politics during the depression. With photographs, charts, maps and notes. Paper edition (unseen), $11.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)