All the King's Men
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ISBN: 0156031043 / Publisher: Harvest Books, September 2006
Louisiana governor Willie Stark's obsession with political power leads to the ultimate corruption of his gubernatorial administration, in the story of the rise and fall of a Southern demagogue in the 1930s.
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Set in the 1930s, this Pulitzer Prize–winning novel 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. Generally considered the finest novel ever written on American politics, All the King’s Men is a literary classic.SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRINGSEAN PENNJUDE LAWKATE WINSLETJAMES GANDOLFINIMARK RUFFALOPATRICIA CLARKSONandANTHONY HOPKINS
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