All the King's Men

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

The fully restored original text of the classic, ever-relevant story of a backcountry lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power--American literature's definitive political novel.

All the King's Men traces the rise of fall of demagogue Willie Talos, a fiction Southern policitian who resembles the real-life Huey Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success and the lust for power.

Now Warren's masterpiece has been fully restored and reintroduced by literary scholar Noel Polk, textual editor of the works of William Faulkner. Polk presents the novel as it was originally written, revealing even greater energy, excitement, and complexity.

Author: Robert Penn Warren, Noel Polk
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 09/03/2002
Pages: 656
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.30w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9780156012959
ISBN10: 0156012952
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Political