All the king's men
by Robert Penn Warren
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"Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, All the King's Men is one of the most famous and widely read works in American fiction. Its original publication by Harcourt catapulted author Robert Penn Warren to fame and made the novel a bestseller for many seasons. Set in the 1930s, it traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie [Stark] Talos, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana.
Talos begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success, caught between dreams of service and a lust for power. All the King's Men is as relevant today as it was fifty years ago." "Now Robert Penn Warren's masterpiece has been fully restored and is reintroduced by literary scholar Noel Polk. Polk presents the novel as it was originally written, and without the deletions required by its original editors."--BOOK JACKET.
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Drama, Fiction, Political corruption, Politicians, Politicians in fiction, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Southern States in fiction, award:pulitzer_prize=1947, award:pulitzer_prize=fiction, Political fiction, American Political fiction, Nineteen thirties, Politicians, fiction, Southern states, fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, political, Political plays, Governors, Politics and government, Politicians--fiction, Political fiction, american, Ps3545.a748 a7 2001, 813/.52People
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All the King's Men [2006 Movie Tie-In Edition]
September 5, 2006, Harvest Books
in English
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All the King's Men [Movie Tie-In Edition]
November 7, 2005, Harvest Books
in English
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All the king's men
1982, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
in English
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"TO GET there you follow Highway 58, going northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new."
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The story is about Willie Stark, a slick politician of humble birth, who was based on real-life Huey Long, a Louisiana governor, but the real main character is Jack Burden, a reporter who serves to narrate the story and Stark's rise to power.
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