All the King's MenSet 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. |
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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