All the King's Men 2006

Set in the 1930s, this Pulitzer Prizewinning novel 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, All the Kings Men is a literary classic.SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRINGSEAN PENNJUDE LAWKATE WINSLETJAMES GANDOLFINIMARK RUFFALOPATRICIA CLARKSONandANTHONY HOPKINS

Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) won three Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, the National Medal for Literature, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1986 he was named the country’s first poet laureate.