All the king's men
by Robert Penn Warren
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Set in the '30s, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Stark, a fictional character who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted by success and caught between dreams of service and an insatiable lust for power.
The model for 1996's best-selling novel, Primary Colors, and as relevant today as it was fifty years ago, All the King's Men is one of the classics of American literature.
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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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September 5, 2006, Harvest Books
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November 7, 2005, Harvest Books
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All the king's men
1982, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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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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