All the King's Men

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Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, All the King's Men is one of the most famous and widely read works in American fiction. Its original publication by Harcourt catapulted author Robert Penn Warren to fame and made the novel a bestseller for many seasons. Set in the 1930s, it traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Stark, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success, caught between dreams of service and a lust for power.