HIST 2270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Share Our Wealth, Francis Townsend, Hightide
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Lecture eleven - the new deal at high tide. The new deal hadn"t really made any deep changes in american life. First new deal: fdr had tried really hard to please everyone. Goes back to natural constituency > democrats, working class, liberals. Huey long : risen to power in louisiana on wave of discontent > still populists. Wanted to create another revolution based on the redistribution of wealth. Government would limit the size of any fortunes, any family could be given enough for a radio (), and a guaranteed income of . Share our wealth club > more than 8 million supporters. His plan did not make any economic sense, but he was addressing a real problem. Once he became a senator, public opinion polls showed that he would get aroudn 4 million votes in 1936. Huey long gave rise to the poor"s fears. Father charles coughlin > huey long"s urban counterpart.
