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===Media=== {{Main|Huey Long in culture}} [[File:Sinclair Lewis It Can't Happen Here 1936 theater poster.jpg|thumb|150px|upright|alt=Poster featuring soldier looming over the United States|1936 poster for the WPA stage adaptation of ''[[It Can't Happen Here]]'']] In popular culture, Long has served as a template for multiple dictatorial politicians in novels.<ref>[[#Perry2004|Perry (2004)]], pp. 2β3.</ref> Notable works include [[Sinclair Lewis]]'s novel ''[[It Can't Happen Here]]'' (1935),<ref>[[#Boulard|Boulard (1998)]], p. 115.</ref><ref>[[#Perry2004|Perry (2004)]], p. 62.</ref> Robert Penn Warren's [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction|Pulitzer Prize]]-winning novel ''[[All the King's Men]]'' (1946),<ref>{{cite news |date=May 31, 1981|title=In the Time of 'All the King's Men'|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098warren-all.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615001509/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098warren-all.html|archive-date=June 15, 2020|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Garner|first=Dwight|date=April 11, 2016|title='All the King's Men,' Now 70, Has a Touch of 2016|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/books/all-the-kings-men-now70-has-a-touch-of-2016.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200522223910/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/books/all-the-kings-men-now70-has-a-touch-of-2016.html|archive-date=May 22, 2020|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://ash.harvard.edu/event/all-kings-men|title=All the King's Men|date=December 6, 2013|website=[[Harvard Kennedy School]]|publisher=Harvard University|access-date=June 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615001517/https://ash.harvard.edu/event/all-kings-men|archive-date=June 15, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Adria Locke Langley]]'s 1945 novel ''A Lion Is in the Streets''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Perry|first=Keith|date=June 1, 2004|title=The Kingfish in Fiction: Huey P. Long and the Modern American Novel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WS8Sry8NTUIC&q=A+Lion+Is+in+the+Streets+all+the+kings+men&pg=PA33|location=Baton Rouge|publisher=[[Louisiana State University Press]]|page=33|isbn=978-0-8071-2942-5 |access-date=November 12, 2020|archive-date=December 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224200214/https://books.google.com/books?id=WS8Sry8NTUIC&q=A+Lion+Is+in+the+Streets+all+the+kings+men&pg=PA33|url-status=live}}</ref> The latter two were adapted into films.<ref>[[#Perry2004|Perry (2004)]], p. 221.</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Crowther|first=Bosley|date=September 24, 1953|title=The Screen in Review; ' A Lion Is in the Streets' Opens at Paramount, Starring James Cagney and Barbara Hale|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1953/09/24/archives/the-screen-in-review-a-lion-is-in-the-streets-opens-at-paramount.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608225801/https://www.nytimes.com/1953/09/24/archives/the-screen-in-review-a-lion-is-in-the-streets-opens-at-paramount.html|archive-date=June 8, 2020|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref> As well as two television [[docudramas]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_life_and_assassination_of_the_kingfish|title=The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=June 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210020525/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_life_and_assassination_of_the_kingfish/|archive-date=December 10, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Scott|first=Tony|date=March 14, 1995|title=Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long|url=https://variety.com/1995/tv/reviews/kingfish-a-story-of-huey-p-long-1200441053/|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|location=Los Angeles|access-date=June 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190608040132/https://variety.com/1995/tv/reviews/kingfish-a-story-of-huey-p-long-1200441053/|archive-date=June 8, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Long was the subject of a 1985 [[Ken Burns]]-directed [[Huey Long (documentary)|documentary]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Canby|first=Vincent|author-link=Vincent Canby|date=September 28, 1985|title=Film Festival; 'Huey Long,' A Documentary on the Louisiana Populist, By Ken Burns|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/28/movies/film-festival-huey-long-a-documentary-on-the-louisiana-populist-by-ken-burns.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609001631/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/28/movies/film-festival-huey-long-a-documentary-on-the-louisiana-populist-by-ken-burns.html |archive-date=June 9, 2020|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Siskel|first=Gene|author-link=Gene Siskel|date=March 19, 1986|title=An Unsatisfying Portrait of Huey Long|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-03-19-8601200686-story.html|work=[[The Chicago Tribune]]|access-date=June 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618143423/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-03-19-8601200686-story.html|archive-date=June 18, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> In music, [[Randy Newman]] featured Long in two songs on the 1974 album ''[[Good Old Boys (Randy Newman album)|Good Old Boys]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Davis|first=Stephen|date=January 21, 1997|title=Good Old Boys|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/good-old-boys-95294/|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|location=Los Angeles|access-date=June 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200426125340/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/good-old-boys-95294/|archive-date=April 26, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Frazier|first1=Ian|last2=Hertzberg|first2=Hendrik|date=December 2, 1974|title=Randy Newman|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/12/09/randy-newman|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|access-date=June 17, 2020|url-status=live|archive-date=June 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619045246/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/12/09/randy-newman|url-access=subscription}}</ref> <!-- Long's name was the inspiration for the [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] cartoon character "Huey" of the duck triplets [[Huey, Dewey, and Louie]].<ref>Thomas Andrae,"The Legacy of Al Taliaferro," in ''Disney's Four Color Adventures'' vol. 1 (2011).</ref> Reference needs page #, etc.--> Long has been the subject of dozens of biographies and academic texts. In fact, more has been written about Long than any other Louisianan.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Jeansonne|first=Glen|date=Autumn 1980|title=Challenge to the New Deal: Huey P. Long and the Redistribution of National Wealth|journal=Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association|volume=21|issue=4|pages= 331β39|jstor=4232034}}</ref> Most notable is the 1969 biography ''[[Huey Long (biography)|Huey Long]]'' by Williams, which won both the [[Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography|Pulitzer Prize]] and the [[National Book Award]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Goodman|first=George Jr.|date=July 7, 1979|title=T. Harry Williams, scholar, Dies; Huey Long Book Won a Pulitzer|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/07/archives/t-harry-williams-scholar-dies-huey-wlong-book-won-a-pulitzer.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 9, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/t-harry-williams-2/huey-long-2/|title=Huey Long|website=[[Kirkus Reviews]]|access-date=June 25, 2020|archive-date=December 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224200218/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/t-harry-williams-2/huey-long-2/|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref> [[Alan Brinkley]] won the National Book Award in 1983 for ''[[Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression|Voices of Protest]]'', a study of Long, Coughlin, and populist opposition to Roosevelt.<ref>{{cite news |last=Sherrill|first=Robert|date=July 11, 1982|title=American Demagogues|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/11/books/american-demagogues.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626081654/https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/11/books/american-demagogues.html|archive-date=June 26, 2020|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Berman|first=Milton|date=Winter 1983|title=Reviewed Work: Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression by Alan Brinkley|journal=Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association|volume=24|issue=1|pages=91β93|jstor=4232243}}</ref>
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