Publisher's Synopsis
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.
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.
