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A true hallmark of American fiction, All the King's Men tells the timeless story of the rise and fall of a southern politician, Willie Stark, and the effects of these events on the life of Jack Burden, the young man who narrates the story. Published to widespread acclaim in 1946, the novel won the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize for its author, the distinguished poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren, and was subsequently made into an Academy Award-winning feature film, as well as a stage play. And while Warren obviously based Willie Stark on Huey Long, the infamous "Kingfish" governor of Louisiana, All the King's Men is far more than a roman a clef; in it Warren addresses the universal themes of good and evil, of freedom and responsibility, and provides a rich perspective on southern cultural history and American politics. This first book-length study of All the King's Men argues that, rather than being primarily about an American political demagogue, the novel is fundamentally about a culture at war with itself - the conservative Old South struggling against the progressive New South - and that Burden, not Stark, is the central figure. Employing a chapter-by-chapter approa

Author

Harold Woodell

Publisher

Twaynes ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805794113

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities