All the King's Men (Paperback)

from lostinmommydom

Perhaps one of the greatest novels ever written, the line "For in those days as fall came on, I felt as if the world and I were seperating, it could go its way and I could go mine, or I would have, had I known what my way was" Spoke to me upon first reading and continues to each time I recall tho...

from brenzi

What does it mean when you get to the end of a long novel and find yourself with tears rolling down your face? That's what I asked myself last night as I plowed my way to the end of All the King's Men. I'm usually about as emotional as a wet dishrag, but I was so caught up with the story, so pers...

from RebaRelishesReading

Author Robert Penn Warren took pains in the preface to say that his character Willie Stark is not based (at least not solely) on Huey Long ... but with the basic story of Long that I know it's hard to believe. The book was published in 1946 (and awarded the Pulitzer in 1947) after having started ...

from TerriS

This is a political novel of the 1930's American South, told by narrator Jack Burden, about the life, times, and doings of Governor Willie Stark for whom Burden worked. There are several twists and turns that I did not expect. I also expected it to be drier and harder to read. I was pleasantly su...

from alanthompson

This is one of the books I've read many times. It's a story of public and personal corruption, and no punches are pulled. The "King" is Willie Stark, a not very fictional stand-in for Louisiana Governor Huey Long, who begins as a backwoods innocent and ends as a tragically flawed politician tryin...