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The Big Lie: Hale Boggs, Lucille May Grace, and Leander Perez

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An incisive survey of three Louisiana politicians and how the 1951-52 elections forever changed their lives.

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Pelican Publishing
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September 30, 2001
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5.5 x 0.64 x 8.5 inches
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156554868X
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978-1565548688

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For most voters in Louisiana, the central question of the 1951-52 gubernatorial campaign was a simple one: which candidate would maintain the generous populist government ushered in by the legendary Huey Long? For others, many of whom were convinced that somehow Soviet agents were running amok in Louisiana, communism was the only issue worthy of discussion.Those who were fearful soon found their voice in Leander Perez, longtime boss of Plaquemines Parish and leader of the Southern States Rights movement, who warned Louisianians that a communist takeover was imminent.
New Orleans Cong. Hale Boggs--a civil rights liberal and prominent Washington insider--was seen as the front runner in the election. Lucille May Grace, the longtime registrar of the state land office and one of the shrewdest politicians in Louisiana history, appeared to be his most powerful opponent.
With the counsel of Perez, "Miss Lucille," as she was known throughout the state, turned the 1951-52 race upside down when she sensationally accused Boggs of being a communist.
Through interviews with more than forty individuals involved in this historic election, author Garry Boulard blends oral history with long-forgotten material unearthed from more than a dozen archives. The result is an incisive survey of three Louisiana giants and how the 1951-52 elections forever changed their lives.

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A free-lance writer, Boulard has written on the political, economic, and social life of Louisiana and New Orleans for many publications, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Christian Science Monitor.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pelican Publishing
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 30, 2001
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 156554868X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1565548688
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.64 x 8.5 inches
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Garry Boulard is a reporter and author whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune among many other publications.
His essays and reviews have appeared in the Journal of Southern History, Florida Historical Quarterly, American Quarterly, Louisiana History, Journal of Mississippi History, Alabama Review and Journal of Ethnic Studies.
Boulard saw his first story appear in the Wyoming Advocate, a Michigan weekly, in the fall of 1976 when he was 22 years old. From 1978 to 1979 he was a police reporter for the New Observer in Crossett, Arkansas. He worked as a political reporter from 1980 to 1981 for the Daily Sentry News in Slidell, Louisiana.
From 1981 to 1983 Boulard was a staff writer for the Tulanian, the quarterly magazine published by Tulane University, deciding to become a freelance writer in 1983.
Since 1983 he has seen the publication of his first book, Just a Gigolo--the Life and Times of Louis Prima, published by the Center for Louisiana Studies in 1989 and re-published by the University of Illinois Press in 2002.
In 1998 Pelican Publishing released Boulard's Huey Long Invades New Orleans, a book exploring the explosive relationship between the legendary Kingfish and the Democratic machine of New Orleans, otherwise known as the Old Regulars.
In 2006, Boulard authored The Expatriation of Franklin Pierce, which takes a unique look at a discredited former president who emerged during the Civil War as a defender of Civil Liberties.
Boulard's most recent book was published in the spring of 2015: The Worst President: The Story of James Buchanan, a work that takes a look at the failed Buchanan presidency with a special focus on the 15th president's final pre-Civil War months in office.
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