The political views of Huey P. Long have presented historians and biographers with some difficulty.[1] While most say that Louisiana Governor and Senator Huey Long was a populist, little else can be agreed on. Huey Long's opponents, both during his life and after, often drew connections between him and his ideology and far-left and right political movements, comparing it to everything from European Fascism, Stalinism, and later McCarthyism. When asked about his own political personality, Long simply replied: "Oh, hell, say that I’m sui generis and let it go at that." Writer Robert Penn Warren said "my guess is he was a remarkable set of contradictions."[2]
- ^ Haas (1994), p. 125.
- ^ Warren, Robert Penn (May 31, 1981). "In the Time of 'All the King's Men'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 8, 2020. Retrieved September 4, 2020.