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Book · 1946 · Fiction

All The King's Men

Robert Penn Warren
Harcourt Trade Publishers · 656 pages
★ 6.8 editorial score

Willie Stark rises from county treasurer to governor believing good can be made only out of bad. Warren wrote the American novel of power, narrated by the aide he sends to dig dirt.

Genre
Political fictionPolitical
Medium
Novel
Subject
US politicsPoliticsCorruptionNihilism
Setting
American South
Time
1946Depicts Great DepressionDepicts 1930s

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“Life's a bitch and then you die That's why we get high Cause you never know When you're gonna go.”

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“Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.”

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