All the King's Men - Paperback - 9780156012959

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe 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
• | Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
• | Publication Date: Sep 03, 2002
• | Number of Pages: 656 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0156012952
• | ISBN-13: 9780156012959