Coozan Dudley Leblanc
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Coozan Dudley Leblanc

From Huey Long to Hadacol

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eBook - ePub

Coozan Dudley Leblanc

From Huey Long to Hadacol

About this book

"They were great days. [This] book brings them back to life."-Kansas City Times

"Floyd Clay has written perceptively of LeBlanc."-Associated Press

He was the most extraordinary politician, businessman, medicine man, and promoter imaginable. Coozan Dudley LeBlanc traces the life of this amazing Cajun entrepreneur who almost single-handedly revolutionized American product advertising. He spent millions to promote Hadacol, his alcohol-saturated, vitamin-mineral patent medicine.

With heavy advertising, contests, and the Hadacol Caravan-a traveling road show featuring a dazzling cast of Hollywood stars, beauty queens, and circus antics-LeBlanc parlayed his elixir into an amazing overnight success. America had never seen anything like it.

But before the 1950s Hadacol phenomenon, LeBlanc had made his mark in the hurly-burly politics of his native Louisiana. As a state legislator, he had championed a steady stream of legislation to increase benefits to the poor and aged. Bold, flashy, and determined, he frequently clashed with the Louisiana Kingfish, Huey Long, in a power struggle that ended only with Long's assassination.

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Information

Year
1999
eBook ISBN
9781455602988
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction
  8. I. “Just Keep the Smoke Down”
  9. II. “I Can Sell After Anybody But Myself”
  10. III. The Poor Man’s Friend
  11. IV. Moving Up: Public Service Commission
  12. V. Challenging the Kingfish
  13. VI. Destroyed and Banished
  14. VII. “I’m Back, You S.O.B.”
  15. VIII. The Patent Medicine Man
  16. IX. “Everybody Knows I’m Running”
  17. X. The Show Goes On
  18. Bibliography