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"Last of the Red Hot Poppas will make you laugh and it will make youthink rather more deeply than will make you comfortable, and in thesewildly disjointed times that means this novel is not only a richlyenjoyable read but an essential one." - Robert Olen Butler, author ofthe Pulitzer-Prize winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

"Right-wingflag enthusiasts, big oil power brokers, luckless inheritors ofenvironmental degradation, professional gamblers, sexual profligates,ACLU lawyers, and political hit men-Last of the Red Hot Poppashas all of these and more. Jason Berry, quintessential Louisianainsider and witty chronicler of what passes for morality in the hallsof power, has concocted a tantalizing mix of comic misdemeanors andserious criminal activity."- Valerie Martin, author of Property

"Both wildly entertaining and deadly serious, Last of the Red HotPoppas is a fabulous read - nobody understands Louisiana politics (andits larger-than-life characters) better than Jason Berry. I couldn'tput this one down." - Lee Smith, author of On Agate Hilland The Last Girls

"With the grittiness of Dashiell Hammett and the rhythms of JamesEllroy, Jason Berry gives us Louisiana politics. Last of the Red HotPoppasis a novel you won't be able to put down." - Raymond D. Strother, Falling Up: How a Redneck Helped Invent Political Consulting

"Nobody understands Louisiana politics better than Jason Berry orwrites so convincingly about its corruption, color, and complexity. Last of the Red Hot Poppashad me laughing out loud and turning pages as fast as I could."- Christine Wiltz, author of The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld

Last of the Red Hot Poppasis part ribald whodunit, part social satire, and part "spiritualcomedy,"as Berry calls it. It's a chaotic romp through the many levelsof "Looziana,"but above all, it is a novel about the struggle tomaintain one's integrity in a mad world of politics and power.

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Jason Berry is an investigative journalist who has written extensively on Southern politics, culture and religion. His books include "Vows of Silence:The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II" (co author, Free Press, 0743244419), "Lead Us Not Into Temptation" (University of Ill. Press, 0252068122) and "Up from the Cradle of Jazz" (University of Georgia Press, 0820308536).