Russell Long: A Life in Politics

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Russell Long (1918-2003) occupies a unique niche in twentieth-century United States history. Born into Louisiana’s most influential political circle of relatives, and son of most likely essentially the most famous Louisianan of all time, Long extended the political power generated by other members of his circle of relatives and attained heights of power unknown to his predecessors, including his father, Huey.

The Long circle of relatives and its followers pervaded Louisiana politics from the late 1920s throughout the 1980s. Being a Long–especially a son of Huey Long–preordained Russell for a political life. His father’s assassination set the wheels in motion for his eventual political career. In 1948, Russell followed his father and his mother to a seat in the USA Senate. Sooner or later, he rose to the politically eminent positions of majority whip and chair of the Senate Finance Committee.

Russell Long: A Life in Politics examines Long’s public life and places it throughout the context of twentieth-century Louisiana, southern, and national politics. In Louisiana, Long’s politics arose out of the Longite/ Anti-Longite period of history. Yet he transcended many of the ones two groups’ factional squabbles. Within the national realm, Long’s politics exhibited a working philosophy that straddled the boundaries between New Deal liberalism and southern conservatism. By the point of his retirement in early 1987, he had witnessed the demise of one political paradigm–the New Deal liberal consensus–and the creation of one dominated by a new style of conservatism.

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