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All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren |
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POLITICIANS_FICTION AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR) FICTION_POLITICAL SOUTHERN STATES_FICTION | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.'--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on american politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power. New Foreword by Joseph Blotner for this fiftieth anniversary edition. Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was born in Kentucky and educated at Vanderbilt University, the University of California, Yale University, and Oxford University. Making his literary debut as a member of the 'Fugitive' group of young Southern poets, Warren subsequently took his place as one of America's most multifaceted leading men of letters. As editor of The Southern Review, he deeply influenced the development of Southern writing. As critic, teacher, and anthologist, he played an important role in American higher education. Above all, however, Warren will endure as a poet and a novelist whose works have been accorded a rare combination of critical and popular recognition. He was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and, in 1986, he was invested as Poet Laureate of the United States. When All the King's Men was first published in 1946, Sinclair Lewis pronounced it 'massive, impressive ... one of our few national galleries of character.' Diana Trilling, reviewing it for the Nation, wrote, 'For sheer virtuosity, for the sustained drive of its prose, for the speed and the evenness of its pacing, for its precision of language ... I doubt indeed whether it can be matched in American fiction.' The Washington Post declared, 'If the game of naming the Great American Novel is still being played anywhere, Warren's All the King's Men would easily make the final rounds.' 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 political 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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