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4.09. 63,666 ratings3,274 reviews. All the King's Men is a 1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren. Its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty". The novel tells the story of charismatic populist governor Willie Stark and his political machinations in the Depression-era Deep South.
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Sep 22, 2006 · 12% Tomatometer 158 Reviews 40% Audience Score 50,000+ Ratings Charismatic Southern politician Willie Stark's (Sean Penn) idealism and good intentions give way to corruption after he becomes ...
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Dec 30, 2014 · All the King’s Men is one of American literature’s definitive political novels, as well as a profound study of human fallibility in politics. Set in the 1930s, it describes the dramatic...
Apr 11, 2016 · The novel is based loosely on Long’s life and times, and by wide consensus, it’s America’s essential political novel — less funny but more sweeping than “Primary Colors” (1996), by Joe Klein, and...
97% Tomatometer 74 Reviews 78% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings Drama about the rise and fall of a corrupt southern governor who promises his way to power. Broderick Crawford portrays Willie Stark...
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Sep 22, 2006 · Directed by Steven Zaillian. Drama, Thriller. PG-13. 2h 8m. By A.O. SCOTT. Sept. 22, 2006. “All the King’s Men,” Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1946 novel about the rise and...
Nevertheless, Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men" is magnificently vital reading, a book so charged with dramatic tension it almost crackles with blue sparks, a book so drenched with fierce emotion, narrative pace and poetic imagery that its stature as a "readin' book," as some of its characters would call it, dwarfs that of most current ...