Louisiana Boys: Raised on Politics (1991)

An unorthodox look at the colorful, Byzantine political culture of Louisiana, home to Huey and Earl Long, David Duke and oft elected and oft indicted Edwin Edwards, where politics is a long running spectator sport. My first collaboration with Louis Alvarez and Andy Kolker (funded by Michael Sartisky and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities), it won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award and was nominated for a national Emmy. Described in the Boston Globe as a “look at the flamboyant political history of the Bayou State, (that’s) every bit as insightful as it is entertaining,” a “sassy yet serious review of the revels” by the New York Times, “marvelously entertaining” by the Texas Observer, as “tragicomic… replete with the kind of imagery and sound-bites that incite voters to term limitations, if not revolution.” Funded by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

National PBS broadcast on PBS series P.O.V., August 1992.