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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 politician and demagogue in the 1930s. All the King's Men portrays the dramatic political ascent and governorship of Willie Stark, a driven, cynical populist in the American South during the 1930s. The novel is narrated by Jack Burden, a political reporter who comes to work as Governor Stark's right-hand man. The trajectory of Stark's career is interwoven with Jack Burden's life story and philosophical reflections: "the story of Willie Stark and the story of Jack Burden are, in one sense, one story.""Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street (1920) and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men (1946) has come to be read as an emblematic, even an allegorical, text... [having] acquired the status of American archetypes, larger than the historically precise fictional worlds they inhabit...more interesting for what they represent than for what they are... All the King’s Men was fueled by its reputation as a scandalous roman à clef based upon the life and death of the fl

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Author

Robert Penn Warren; Noel Polk

Publisher

Mariner Books Classics

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780156012959

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.4 / 5 (2,729 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14