All the King's Men

Name: All the King's Men
Author: Robert Penn Warren

by Robert Penn Warren

Political allegory following corrupt demagogue's rise and fall in American South

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Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren was the only person to win the Pulitzer Prize in both fiction and poetry, celebrated for All the King's Men, a novel based on Huey Long that is the definitive American political novel. His work defined the Southern Agrarian literary tradition.

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