This wasn't about not-Huey P. Long at all. I did like it, but I felt a little cheated by the feel good ending in the last few pages. Jack Burden didn't earn it.

New Dealer seethes at hyper competent Southerner actually fixing his state

>>24524228
Are you talking about the book or Huey P. Long? The book really wasn't much about politics.

>>24524244
Kingfish

Does this book still get assigned? Remember reading it in high school and never heard anything about it since

>>24524758
I don't know. It wasn't assigned when I was in high school 20 years ago. I bought it a few years ago and finally read it after my mother mentioned she was reading it recently.

>>24524823
All I remember from it was the "big sleep." It's not a book that resonated enough with me to have stayed in my memory. Did see the movie also with Sean Penn I guess long time ago as well but the movie likewise made no impression on me I guess because I don't remember a thing from it.

>>24524831
The main character is interesting enough with his own brand of nihilism that he gets over. I got a little irritated with the repetition that the author liked to use. It was used too much instead of bringing focus to more critical parts only.