Author: robertpennwarren

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Robert Penn Warren’s tale of ambition and power set in the Depression-era South is widely considered the finest novel ever written about American politics.All the King’s Men traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Stark, a fictional character loosely based on Governor Huey “Kingfish” Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of … idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted by success and caught between dreams of service and an insatiable lust for power, culminating in a novel that Sinclair Lewis pronounced, on the book’s release in…