All the King's Men

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Penguin, 2006 - Fiction - 661 pages
Young, passionate and determined, Willie Stark begins his political life as an idealistic man of the people, compelled by a desire to transform America. But when he is betrayed while running for governor in the Deep South s Mason County, he soon realises that pure ideals are worth very little in the political world and that in order to succeed he must not be afraid of corruption.

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About the author (2006)

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was born in Guthrie, Kentucky. In his lifetime he won three Pulitzer Prises, 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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