Harold B. Mcsween

Though it is now more than five decades ago, I remember well the morning, fall of 1946, I wandered into Harry Williams's history class at Louisiana State University, a curious if blase poacher. This 20-year-old English major had returned to the idy [...]

Washington Through A Purple Veil: Memoirs of a Southern Woman. By Lindy Boggs. Harcourt Brace. $24.95         In just twelve months our isolationist mood had         vanished. Everything else in our lives was about to         [...]

Within five years of his death at age 42, on Sept. 10, 1935, while seeking the presidency and overseeing Louisiana's government from the U. S. Senate, with whom he shared a mutual disdain, Huey Long suffered a posthumous infirmity. The political fa [...]

Some moviegoers will remember urbane Paul Newman miscast as the earthy and irascible Earl Long in Blaze (1989). The film was scripted in part from Blaze Starr: My Life as Told to Huey Perry (1974), a nightclub stripper's ghosted autobiography styled [...]