All the King's Men

By Robert Penn Warren

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

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.