All the King's Men

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006 - Fiction - 661 pages
Set in the 1930s, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Stark, a fictional character who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted by success and caught between dreams of service and an insatiable lust for power. As relevant today as it was more than fifty years ago, All the King's Men is one of the classics of American literature.
 

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Contents

Chapter 1
1
Chapter 2
76
Chapter 3
164
Chapter 4
235
Chapter 5
286
Chapter 6
343
Chapter 7
405
Chapter 8
469
Chapter 9
534
Chapter 10
605
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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.

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