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All the King's Men: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
The classic, ever-relevant story of a backcountry lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power--American literature's definitive political novel.
All the King's Men traces the rise of fall of demagogue Willie Stark, a fictional Southern policitian who resembles the real-life Huey Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success and the lust for power.
Book Details
- Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
- Publish Date: Sep 1st, 1996
- Pages: 672
- Language: English
- Edition: Harvest - 0002
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.20in - 1.90in - 1.20lb
- EAN: 9780156004800
- Recommended age: 14-UP
- Categories: • Classics• Literary• Political
About the Author
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) won three Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, the National Medal for Literature, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1986 he was named the country's first poet laureate.
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What people are saying
Walter Kirn is a novelist and literary critic.
To my shame, it was not until this very morning that I began reading Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men. I'm 50 pages in and I'm not at all original in feeling, I'm sure, that it may be among the 3 or 4 greatest modern American novels. It certainly stirs that level of esteem
Senior editor, National Review; music critic, The New Criterion
Several years ago, a professor told me, "If you want to understand the Trump phenomenon, read 'All the King's Men,'" Robert Penn Warren's classic. "It's all there, down to the particulars."
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@fairlyspiritual I really need to go back and reread Steinbeck. Was just thinking about it this past week. Not the same style, but have you read Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men." ? He was a US Poet Laureate & his writing style reflects this. The book is also very timely these days.
Praise for this book
PRAISE FOR ALL THE KING'S MEN
"Over the course of more than two centuries of vivid political history, there is perhaps only one full-blooded American novel of politics that plunges deep into the hearts of its characters and therefore into the hearts of its readers, thus rising to the top ranks of American fiction. That is Robert Penn Warren's lush All the King's Men."
- L O S A N G E L E S T I M E S B O O K R E V I E W
"It's a measure of the enduring worth of All the King's Men that Willie Stark has entered our collective literary consciousness, in the company of Captain Ahab, Huck Finn, Jay Gatsby, Holden Caulfield, Rabbit Angstrom, and very few others."
- J O Y C E C A R O L O A T E S, T H E N E W Y O R K R E V I E W O F B O O K S
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What people are saying
Walter Kirn is a novelist and literary critic.
To my shame, it was not until this very morning that I began reading Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men. I'm 50 pages in and I'm not at all original in feeling, I'm sure, that it may be among the 3 or 4 greatest modern American novels. It certainly stirs that level of esteem