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All the King’s Men
Robert Penn Warre · 2002 · 642 pages
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
The fully restored original text of 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 Talos, a fiction Southern policitian who resembles the real-life Huey Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success and the lust for power.
Now Warren's masterpiece has been fully restored and reintroduced by literary scholar Noel Polk, textual editor of the works of William Faulkner. Polk presents the novel as it was originally written, revealing even greater energy, excitement, and complexity.
The fully restored original text of 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 Talos, a fiction Southern policitian who resembles the real-life Huey Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success and the lust for power.
Now Warren's masterpiece has been fully restored and reintroduced by literary scholar Noel Polk, textual editor of the works of William Faulkner. Polk presents the novel as it was originally written, revealing even greater energy, excitement, and complexity.
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Lionel Shriver
“When everyone was obsessed with finding novels that resonated with Trump’s election, I was surprised more people didn’t pounce on Robert Penn Warren’s loosely fictionalised biography of Huey Long, the populist firebrand governor of Louisiana. The Long character intertwines the personal and the political so much as to expose the distinction as artificial. Unfortunately, all Warren’s other books are disappointing. Years hence folks may be dismissing most of my own novels in the same manner, but if they’re still touting one title as good as this, then I’ll be dead lucky.”↗