All the King's Men

Restored Edition

| 4.20 | 55,198 ratings and reviews

Recommended by Matthew T. Hall, Bill Earner, Heather Brooke, and 3 others. See all reviews

Ranked #28 in South, Ranked #34 in Pulitzer Prize — see more rankings.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on american politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power. New Foreword by Joseph Blotner for this fiftieth anniversary edition.
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Matthew T. Hall @Gattobellocat I love that book. (Source)

Bill Earner My favorites [novels] are 100 Years of Solitude, All the King's Men, The Last Samurai, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. (Source)

Heather Brooke This is a great mix of politics and journalism. It shows the way the two work together in a symbiotic relationship where they both need and hate each other. The newspaper guy is Jack Burden and he goes to work for Willie Stark – who starts off as a fresh-faced, incredibly idealistic and very ambitious man-of-the-people politician. (Source)

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