Win the Race or Die Trying: Uncle Earl’s Last Hurrah

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Earl Kemp Long (1895-1960) used to be the political heir to his brother Huey in Louisiana politics. A country boy who never lost his common touch, he ran for workplace in each state election between 1933 and 1959. He used to be the most productive campaigning politician Louisiana ever produced. In his final term as governor, he suffered a breakdown on live tv even as addressing members of the legislature. He used to be kidnapped and committed to mental institutions in Texas and Louisiana. That he engineered his own release gives proof that he used to be in control of his faculties.

Abandoned by his circle of relatives and his allies, Long used to be written off politically. But in 1960, he had other ideas. He used to be plotting his comeback. Unwell, smoking and drinking, he determined to challenge the incumbent in Louisiana’s Eighth Congressional District, Harold McSween. Doctors warned him that the race could cost him his life. But politics used to be his life, and he vowed to win the election or die trying. He did both.

This book tells the story of the last year of Long’s life and the campaign that he waged and won by sheer force of will. He won the election (and a sizable bet he placed on it), but he used to be dead in just over a week. Win the Race or Die Trying captures the essence of Earl Long by chronicling the desperate, death-defying campaign he waged to redefine his legacy.

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