To run for public office? I honestly believe he is the most unintelligent, poorly spoken, disheveled excuse for a candidate that I've seen in a statewide election-EVER.
Earl Long remains a master at masking his truly amazingly political abilities... He did things his brother never dreamed of...TRUST ME...His ambitions just never reached beyond the state, and his brother's did...
JD, you're starting to scare me... I've read that book cover to cover at least a dozen times, if not more... I also like "Cross to Bear" by John Maginnis, as well as "Bad Bet On the Bayou: The Rise of Gambling in Louisiana, and the Fall of Edwin Edwards" by Tyler Bridges, formerly of the Times Picayune...
Great read, isn't it? Eerie too - several of the participants in that race died soon after (the winner lived 40 years) and the author of the book died soon after as well. What a period. I'll have to check out one of the Maginnis books.
Never read either one but I do like "Its not my cross to bear" by the Allman Brothers and "Born on the Bayou" by Creedance Clearwater Revival" Seriously, the craziest candidate for governor I have ever seen was Warren "Puggy" Moity. Remember Puggy? He had enough money to do a lot of TV ads and he would make the most slanderous accusations against Edwin Edwards and all the other major candidates I ever heard. Puggy never was shy about accusing anybody of being a crook or having homosexual tendencies on the air. It was great entertainment.
