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you listen to podcasts. This is John Bachelor speaking to my colleague David Patricia, Roosevelt sweeps the nation author.

We come to Huey Long.

Hewy Long was a phenomenon, and FTR was correct in thinking that

Huey Long was the challenge for 1936.

What did Huey Long represent? Everything that was popular. He was a populist from the left,

from the right, from the center. His idea of share the wealth was magic across the Country. He was Magic. And the tragedy of

Humor E Long is that he didn't get to stand against FDR and find out what he was

really worth in the world of the 1930s with its despair.

At the same time, it's worth reviewing the fantastic plan that Huey Long had in order to win the presidency in 1940.

Fantastic.

And here David Petrusha, author of Roosevelt Sweeps the Nation, tells the story of Huey Long's plans to the White House.

Huey Long is, represents really the greatest force

of the populist left.

I mean, he's not a, people say,

well, he was a fascist and all that.

What does that mean left or right?

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