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Criminal
A nearly 900-page biography of Huey Long that won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, concluding that Carl Weiss shot Huey Long and had planned it.
In 1969, a writer named T. Harry Williams published an almost 900-page biography of Huey Long. It won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
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Episode: The Kingfish
A nearly 900-page biography of Huey Long that won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, concluding that Carl Weiss shot Huey Long and had planned it.
In 1969, a writer named T. Harry Williams published an almost 900-page biography of Huey Long. It won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Williams interviewed 295 people who'd known Huey Long.
And by the end, he concludes that Weiss did shoot Huey Long and that he had planned it.
Williams writes that Weiss read a lot of political philosophy and, quote, wept openly in conversations about what Long was doing to the state.
We asked Carl Weiss Jr. and his son about this, and they said that Williams didn't interview a single member of the Weiss family.