All the king's men /

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989.,

All the king's men / [print] Robert Penn Warren ; with a foreword to the fiftieth anniversary edition by Joseph Blotner. - second Harvest edition. - San Diego : Harcourt Brace, (c)1996. - x, 438 pages ; 21 cm. - A Harvest book .

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.



9780156004800

96019336


Leisure Reading
Fiction


Political fiction.

PS3545.W292.A458 1996 PS3545