Rick – Interesting point. One question. Is the liberal consensus (or the conservative consensus for that matter) that Huey Long was rightwing? I know Father Coughlin is supposed to have been rightwing (an issue I’ll save for my book). But I was under the impression that there was at least a little vestigial fondness for Long among liberals today. I’ve never heard anybody on the right speak well of him. I’d be curious where you’d put him on the ideological spectrum, and why. Note, I’m fairly unshakable in my contention that in the 1930s “rightwing” meant “anti-FDR” — and nothing else — 8 times out of 10.