Local Elections
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
“You got to make it out of Badness...And you know why? Because there isn’t anything else to make it out of”
—Willie Stark, in All the King’s Men.
A LOCAL election, in scorching 32° C summer heat. A depressed and unstable economy, corruption semi-concealed, the anger of the poor semi-endured. This was Louisiana in the 1930s: the depression, the time when radicalism raged, when Willie Stark arrived, shouted, and won—a person with pas
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