Killing the Kingfish

Jack B. McGuire served as special assistant to the mayor of New Orleans, press secretary to the mayor, and director of public relations from 1964 to 1970 as well as a councilman-at-large for the city of Mandeville from 1984 to 2000. For over forty years he was an officer of Union Savings and Loan Association in New Orleans. He is author of Win the Race or Die Trying: Uncle Earl's Last Hurrah and coauthor (with Walter Greaves Cowan) of Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

Jack B. McGuire is a human encyclopedia about Louisiana politics. For the last ninety years, the assassination of Huey Long has spawned persistent but varied conspiracy theories about why and how it occurred. Considering all the evidence and all the theories, McGuire renders what should be the final word on this tragic event.--Thomas E. Patterson, author of American Populist: Huey Long of Louisiana Killing the Kingfish is the definitive, most authoritative account of Huey Long's assassination and its aftermath. No historian has approached this topic with greater care, knowledge of Louisiana political history, and a better, more dispassionate command of the facts than Jack B. McGuire.--Robert Mann, author of Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU Jack B. McGuire has devoted as much time and energy to studying Huey Long and his family as anyone alive. With Killing the Kingfish, McGuire turns his attention to Long's assassination. The result is an exhaustive dissection of practically every scrap of evidence, some of it never before brought to bear, about Long's death. Killing the Kingfish is more than a justification of its author's convincing final word on the assassination, however, and McGuire rewards the reader with insights into the Kingfish's personality, as well as those of his admirers, detractors, and assassin. More than ninety years after his death, Huey Long remains an object of fascination and debate among historians and other observers--and his assassination has been more heavily debated than most other aspects of his life--but with Killing the Kingfish, McGuire has brought the seemingly endless speculation to its conclusion.--Michael S. Martin, author of Russell Long: A Life in Politics