All the King's Men

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

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 Stark, a fictional Southern policitian who resembles the real-life Huey Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success and the lust for power.

Author: Robert Penn Warren, Noel Polk
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 09/01/1996
Pages: 672
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.90d
ISBN: 9780156004800

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.8
Point Value: 36
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 10827 / All the King's Men


Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 09/27/2002 pg. 79
Publishers Weekly 06/10/1996
People Weekly 02/02/2009 pg. 48
Newsweek 04/06/2009 pg. 12
Newsweek 07/13/2009 pg. 56

About the Author
Warren, Robert Penn: - Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) won three Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, the National Medal for Literature, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1986 he was named the country's first poet laureate.