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All The King's Men Trade paperback - 1996
by Warren, Robert Penn
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
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.
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Details
- Title All The King's Men
- Author Warren, Robert Penn
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: secon
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 661
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harcourt, New York
- Date 1996
- Bookseller's Inventory # V86419
- 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
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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
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."
From the rear 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.
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Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 09/27/2002, Page 79
- Newsweek, 04/06/2009, Page 12
- People Weekly, 02/02/2009, Page 48
- Publishers Weekly, 06/10/1996, Page 0