[lbo-talk] Palast on Huey Long and LA 1927

Mark Bennett mab at straussandasher.com
Fri Sep 2 12:32:08 PDT 2005


Autoplectic


> What Palast is missing in his argument is the other person whose
political career was made by the 1927 flood, the man Calvin Coolidge put in charge of disaster relief: Herbert Hoover, who came out of it looking really good.

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HH was an engineer, no?

___________________________________ Yep, the flood took into the White House. By sheer coincidence I bought John Barry's "Rising Tide," the history of the '27 flood, last week. Started it last night. Pretty good



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