An edition of All the King's Men (1946)

All the king's men

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An edition of All the King's Men (1946)

All the king's men

2nd Harvest ed.

by

  • ★★★★ 4.2 (5 ratings)
  • 104 Want to read
  • 8 Currently reading
  • 10 Have read

Set in the '30s, 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.

The model for 1996's best-selling novel, Primary Colors, and as relevant today as it was fifty years ago, All the King's Men is one of the classics of American literature.

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Harcourt Brace
Language
English
Pages
438

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Drama Fiction Political corruption Politicians Politicians in fiction Pulitzer Prize Winner Southern States in fiction award:pulitzer_prize=1947 award:pulitzer_prize=fiction Political fiction American Political fiction Nineteen thirties Politicians, fiction Southern states, fiction American fiction (fictional works by one author) Fiction, political Political plays Governors Politics and government Politicians--fiction Political fiction, american Ps3545.a748 a7 2001 813/.52 Modern Literature

People

Huey Long

Places

Southern States

Times

1920-1930's

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All the King's Men [2006 Movie Tie-In Edition]
September 5, 2006, Harvest Books
in English
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All the King's Men [Movie Tie-In Edition]
November 7, 2005, Harvest Books
in English
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All the king's men
2001, Harcourt
in English - Restored ed.
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All the king's men
1996, Harcourt Brace
in English - 2nd Harvest ed.
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All the king's men
1990, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
in English
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All the king's men
1982, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
in English - 1st Harvest/HBJ ed.
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All the king's men.
1963, Time, inc.
in English
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All the king's men: a play.
1960, Random House
in English

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Published in
San Diego
Series
A Harvest book

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.52
Library of Congress
PS3545.A748 A7 1996, PS3545.A748A7 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 438 p. ;
Number of pages
438

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL981725M
ISBN 10
0156004801
LCCN
96019336
OCLC/WorldCat
34576898
LibraryThing
35392
Goodreads
5527

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL14858283W

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First Sentence

"TO GET there you follow Highway 58, going northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new."

Work Description

The story is about Willie Stark, a slick politician of humble birth, who was based on real-life Huey Long, a Louisiana governor, but the real main character is Jack Burden, a reporter who serves to narrate the story and Stark's rise to power.

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