All the King's Men - Softcover

Warren, Robert Penn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553204548 ISBN 13: 9780553204544

Publisher: Bantam Books, 1981

Synopsis

Willie Stark, a political demagogue of the American thirties, corrupts himself and everything around him with his all-consuming passion for power

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Review:

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"."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review""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."--Joyce Carol Oates, "The New York Review of Books"

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0553204548
• ISBN 13: 9780553204544
• Binding: Paperback