Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, "All the King's Men" is one
of the most famous and widely read works in American fiction. It
traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Talos, a fictional
Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish"
Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career as an idealistic man of
the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success and caught in
a lust for power. "All the King's Men" is as relevant today as it
was fifty years ago.
Robert Penn Warren's masterpiece has been restored by literary
scholar Noel Polk, whose work on the texts of William Faulkner has
proved so important to American literature. Polk presents the novel
as it was originally written, revealing even greater complexity and
subtlety of character. "All the King's Men" is a landmark in
letters.
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