All the king's men
By: Robert Penn Warren ; with a foreword to the fiftieth anniversary edition by Joseph Blotner.
Edition: 2nd Harvest ed.
Series: A Harvest book
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Published: 1996
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
Subjects: Politicians -- Fiction; Southern States -- Fiction
Description: 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.