Description
Title: All the King’s Men
Author: Warren, Robert Penn
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York
Publication Date: 1946
Edition: First Edition. Third Printing.
Book Condition: VG
Comments: No d-j. Writing on FFEP. Back board wrinkled. Pages tanned. Nice copy.
Synopsis: On most lists for 100 best novels of the 20th century. More than just a classic political novel, Warren’s tale of power and corruption in the Depression-era South is a sustained meditation on the unforeseen consequences of every human act, the vexing connectedness of all people and the possibility—it’s not much of one—of goodness in a sinful world. Willie Stark, Warren’s lightly disguised version of Huey Long, the onetime Louisiana strongman/governor, begins as a genuine tribune of the people and ends as a murderous populist demagogue. Jack Burden is his press agent, who carries out the boss’s orders, first without objection, then in the face of his own increasingly troubled conscience. And the politics? For Warren, that’s simply the arena most likely to prove that man is a fallen creature. Which it does.
