All The King’s Men.
“If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head": First Edition of Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize Winning Work; Signed by Him
All The King’s Men.
WARREN, Robert Penn.
Item Number: 95424
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert Penn Warren on a tipped in page. Some dampstaining to the cloth in an excellent first issue dust jacket with some professional restoration.
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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