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A native of [[New Orleans]], Kane is best known for ''Huey Long's Louisiana Hayride: The American Rehearsal for Dictatorship, 1928–1940,'' a 1941 study of the corruption of the [[Huey Long|Long]] political dynasty in his home state. His 1943 work ''Bayous of Louisiana'' examines the major bayous of his state In the chapter "The Opulent Teche," he refers to Bayou Teche, which flows in South Louisiana though Iberia, St. Landy, St. Martin, and St. Mary parishes., as "the most handsomely endowed of the bayous"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9901E4DE1330E53BBC4950DFB6678388659EDE|title=Southern Backwaters; The Bayous of Louisiana|title=Harnett T. Kane (Illustrated with drawings by Tilden Landry and photographs). 340 pp. New York: William Morrow & Co. $3.50|author=Horace Reynolds|date=October 31, 1943|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=February 25, 2021}}</ref>
 
A native of [[New Orleans]], Kane is best known for ''Huey Long's Louisiana Hayride: The American Rehearsal for Dictatorship, 1928–1940,'' a 1941 study of the corruption of the [[Huey Long|Long]] political dynasty in his home state. His 1943 work ''Bayous of Louisiana'' examines the major bayous of his state In the chapter "The Opulent Teche," he refers to Bayou Teche, which flows in South Louisiana though Iberia, St. Landy, St. Martin, and St. Mary parishes., as "the most handsomely endowed of the bayous"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9901E4DE1330E53BBC4950DFB6678388659EDE|title=Southern Backwaters; The Bayous of Louisiana|title=Harnett T. Kane (Illustrated with drawings by Tilden Landry and photographs). 340 pp. New York: William Morrow & Co. $3.50|author=Horace Reynolds|date=October 31, 1943|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=February 25, 2021}}</ref>
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Other Kane works are ''Plantation Parade'' (a look at early plantations in southeastern Louisiana), ''Deep Delta Country," ''Spies for the Blue and the Gray,'' ''Natchez on the Mississippi,'' ''Young Mark Twain and the Mississippi,'' ''Queen New Orleans," ''The Southern Christmas Cookbook,'' ''The Ursulines: Nuns of Adventure,'' ''Gone Are the Days,'' and ''The Romantic South.''<ref name=nyt>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/14/obituaries/harnett-t-kane-73-author-of-books-about-the-south.html|title=Harnett T. Kane, 73, Author of Books About the South|date=September 14, 1984|publisher=''The New York Times''|accessdate=August 2, 2014}}</ref><ref name=otherbooks/>
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Other Kane works are ''Plantation Parade'' (a look at early plantations in southeastern Louisiana), ''Deep Delta Country," ''Spies for the Blue and the Gray,'' ''Natchez on the Mississippi,'' ''Young Mark Twain and the Mississippi,'' ''Queen New Orleans," ''The Southern Christmas Cookbook,'' ''The Ursulines: Nuns of Adventure,'' ''Gone Are the Days,'' and ''The Romantic South.''<ref name=nyt>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/14/obituaries/harnett-t-kane-73-author-of-books-about-the-south.html|title=Harnett T. Kane, 73, Author of Books About the South|date=September 14, 1984|publisher=''The New York Times''|accessdate=February 25, 2021}}</ref><ref name=otherbooks/>
    
''The Lady of Arlington'' is Kane's 1953 [[novel]] based on the life of Mary Anna Custis Lee, the wife of [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[General]] [[Robert E. Lee]] and a great-granddaughter of [[Martha Washington]]. ''The Gallant Mrs. Stonewall'' is a 1957 novel based on Confederate General [[Stonewall Jackson]] and his second wife, Mary Anna Jackson, known as the "widow of the Confederacy." ''Bride of Fortune'' is Kane's 1948 novel of Varina Howell Davis, the second wife of Confederate President [[Jefferson Davis]]. ''The Smiling Rebel'' is his 1955 novel based on the Confederate spy Belle Boyd of Front Royal, [[Virginia]].<ref name=otherbooks>{{cite web|url=http://www.librarything.com/author/kaneharnettthomas|title=Hartnett T. Kane (1910–1984)|publisher=librarything.com|accessdate=August 2, 2014}}</ref>
 
''The Lady of Arlington'' is Kane's 1953 [[novel]] based on the life of Mary Anna Custis Lee, the wife of [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[General]] [[Robert E. Lee]] and a great-granddaughter of [[Martha Washington]]. ''The Gallant Mrs. Stonewall'' is a 1957 novel based on Confederate General [[Stonewall Jackson]] and his second wife, Mary Anna Jackson, known as the "widow of the Confederacy." ''Bride of Fortune'' is Kane's 1948 novel of Varina Howell Davis, the second wife of Confederate President [[Jefferson Davis]]. ''The Smiling Rebel'' is his 1955 novel based on the Confederate spy Belle Boyd of Front Royal, [[Virginia]].<ref name=otherbooks>{{cite web|url=http://www.librarything.com/author/kaneharnettthomas|title=Hartnett T. Kane (1910–1984)|publisher=librarything.com|accessdate=August 2, 2014}}</ref>
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