All The King’s Men.
First Modern Library Edition of Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize Winning Work
All The King’s Men.
WARREN, Robert Penn.
Item Number: 103499
New York: The Modern Library, 1953.
First Modern Library edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. With a new introduction by Robert Penn Warren.
Set in the 1930s, "All The King's Men" traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted by success. Generally considered the finest novel ever written on American politics. Basis for the 1949 film starring Broderick Crawford and the 2006 remake with Sean Penn, Jude Law and Kate Winslet. Named by Modern Library as one the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.
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