All the King's Men (Film Ink S.)

by Robert Penn Warren (Author), Joseph Blotner (Introduction)

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $29.67

  Set in the 1930s, this novel traces the rise and fall of an American demagogue - Louisiana Governor Willie Stark - a once humble man of the people, steadily corrupted by power. Often labelled a political novel, it is also about personal corruption and disillusionment.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.29

  Robert Penn Warren's masterpiece has been restored by literary scholar Noel Polk, to present the novel as it was originally written, revealing even greater complexity and subtlety of character. It traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Talos, a fictional politician who resembles the real life Huey Kingfish Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but soon becomes corrupted by success and caught in a lust for power.

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $14.21

  All the King's Men is considered the finest novel ever written on American politics. Set in the 1930s, this book traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, 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.