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All the King's Men: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
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All the King's Men: A Pulitzer Prize Winner Paperback - 1996

by Robert Penn Warren; Noel Polk

As relevant today as it was 50 years ago, "All the King's Men" is a classic novel about American politics. Set in the 1930s, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Stark, a fictional character based on the real-life Huey Long of Louisiana.


Summary

"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Robert Penn Warren's tale of ambition and power set in the Depression–era South is widely considered the finest novel ever written about American politics.

 


All the King's Men traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Stark, a fictional character loosely based on Governor 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, culminating in a novel that Sinclair Lewis pronounced, on the book's release in 1946, “one of our few national galleries of character."
 

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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.

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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.

First Edition Identification

Harcourt, Brace, and Company first published All the King’s Men in 1946. Bound in red cloth, the 464-page first edition states “First Edition” on the copyright page. The first edition dust jacket states the original price of $3.00 along with a Sinclair Lewis blurb on the back.

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  • Title All the King's Men: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
  • Author Robert Penn Warren; Noel Polk
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: secon
  • Pages 672
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mariner Books Classics, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
  • Date 1996-09-01
  • ISBN 9780156004800 / 0156004801
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.9 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 4.83 cm)
  • Ages 14 to UP years
  • Grade levels 9 - UP
  • Reading level 1060
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Cultural Region: South
  • Library of Congress subjects Political fiction, Southern States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96019336
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Entertainment Weekly, 09/27/2002, Page 79
  • Newsweek, 07/13/2009, Page 56
  • People Weekly, 02/02/2009, Page 48
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/10/1996, Page 0
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