Thomas T Fields Spoke to the Bernice Business Group About His Two Recently Published Books, "I Called Him Grand Dad" and "Desert Burning"
Thomas T Fields Jr spoke to the Bernice Business Group about his two recently published books. The most attention was paid to his book on Louisiana Politics, "I Called Him Grand Dad, The Lost Political Papers of Harvey G. Fields" This book was also a subject of a story in the highly respected online news outlet, Digital Journal.
Monore, LA, January 24, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Thomas Fields recently spoke to the Bernice Business Group about two books he has written. Of the two, the book that drew the most attention was "I Called Him Grand Dad. The Lost Political Papers of Harvey G. Fields". The book chronicles a man of immense strength and integrity and a man who fought for the just cause of the common man in rural Louisiana and America from the early 1940s until the mid 1960s.
In addition to the speaking engagement, Digital Journal, a well respected world wide Internet News Outlet has recently published a story on the book. The link below will provide the reader access to the story.
http://digitaljournal.com/article/302366
A general overview of the book follows. The book has also received several favorable critical reviews. These reviews can be viewed at Amazon.com where the book is available for sale.
On September 8th 1935 Huey Long was crossing the corridor next the House Of Representative chambers in the Louisiana State Capital when a gunman walked up to him and fired a shot that mortally wounded the US Senator. The gunman fell amidst a hale of sixty-two bullets fired from Long’s body guard. Immediately the conspiracy theories began and they exist to this day.
In 1961 Harvey G. Fields died. His daughter-in-law took the documents and painstakingly packed them away so that they would be preserved. For forty-five years these documents remained undisturbed until finally surfacing recently. These papers have now been turned into a book titled “I Called Him Grand Dad. The Lost Political Papers of Harvey G. Fields.” Many of the theories surrounding Longs assassination and his last days in the hospital are discussed in the book.
But who was this man Harvey Fields. He lived in the small rural town of Farmerville, Louisiana. He was a state Senator, District Attorney, Chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Central Committee, four time delegate to the Democratic National Convention, Law Partner of Huey Long, Chairman of the Louisiana Public Service Commission and Federal Prosecutor that built the initial cases that are referred to as the Louisiana scandals.
When Huey Long was assassinated Fields launched his own investigation and uncovered not one but three plots to kill the Senator. He also interviewed several body guards that he knew to be honest men and who had served in public office prior to serving as Long’s body guard.
This book does not only cover the Huey Long association, it covers a period of political history form 1924 through 1945. Names such as Carter Glass, Jim Farley, Franklin Roosevelt, OK Allen, Upton Sinclair, Williams Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, Earl Long, Richard Leche and others are found through out the book.
Just prior to Fields death, he was interviewed by T. Harry Williams when we was writing his Pulitzer Prize Winning book, “Huey Long”. Information about Fields is included in the book. Williams had requested the Fields papers but Fields died before the exchange could take place. Had that exchange happened, "I Called Him Grand Dad" would not have been written.
After the book was completed, Thomas Fields donated the papers to the LSU Library. They have now been catalogued and archived and were placed on exibition in the reading room of the Hill Memorial Library at LSU.
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In addition to the speaking engagement, Digital Journal, a well respected world wide Internet News Outlet has recently published a story on the book. The link below will provide the reader access to the story.
http://digitaljournal.com/article/302366
A general overview of the book follows. The book has also received several favorable critical reviews. These reviews can be viewed at Amazon.com where the book is available for sale.
On September 8th 1935 Huey Long was crossing the corridor next the House Of Representative chambers in the Louisiana State Capital when a gunman walked up to him and fired a shot that mortally wounded the US Senator. The gunman fell amidst a hale of sixty-two bullets fired from Long’s body guard. Immediately the conspiracy theories began and they exist to this day.
In 1961 Harvey G. Fields died. His daughter-in-law took the documents and painstakingly packed them away so that they would be preserved. For forty-five years these documents remained undisturbed until finally surfacing recently. These papers have now been turned into a book titled “I Called Him Grand Dad. The Lost Political Papers of Harvey G. Fields.” Many of the theories surrounding Longs assassination and his last days in the hospital are discussed in the book.
But who was this man Harvey Fields. He lived in the small rural town of Farmerville, Louisiana. He was a state Senator, District Attorney, Chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Central Committee, four time delegate to the Democratic National Convention, Law Partner of Huey Long, Chairman of the Louisiana Public Service Commission and Federal Prosecutor that built the initial cases that are referred to as the Louisiana scandals.
When Huey Long was assassinated Fields launched his own investigation and uncovered not one but three plots to kill the Senator. He also interviewed several body guards that he knew to be honest men and who had served in public office prior to serving as Long’s body guard.
This book does not only cover the Huey Long association, it covers a period of political history form 1924 through 1945. Names such as Carter Glass, Jim Farley, Franklin Roosevelt, OK Allen, Upton Sinclair, Williams Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, Earl Long, Richard Leche and others are found through out the book.
Just prior to Fields death, he was interviewed by T. Harry Williams when we was writing his Pulitzer Prize Winning book, “Huey Long”. Information about Fields is included in the book. Williams had requested the Fields papers but Fields died before the exchange could take place. Had that exchange happened, "I Called Him Grand Dad" would not have been written.
After the book was completed, Thomas Fields donated the papers to the LSU Library. They have now been catalogued and archived and were placed on exibition in the reading room of the Hill Memorial Library at LSU.
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