Every Man a King: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
Every Man a King: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
The Bible
God was on Huey Long's side.At least, that's what he wanted his listeners to think. The U.S. in the 1930s, the South in particular, was a nation of believers. People went to church and knew their B...
The One Percent
Did you think the Occupy Wall Street movement was started by a bunch of hipsters, the first to really stand up and speak out again the 1%? Huey Long would beg to differ. The one-percenters were the...
Numbers
Statistics don't lie. Unless, of course, you're making them up. Well, they actually can lie even if you don't make them up, but Long was a master at throwing down the numbers to make his argument....
The Founding Fathers and the Philosophers
On the off-chance that there were some non-believers in his audiences, Long had to find some other source than the Bible to show that his plans were the plans of all thinking people throughout hist...