All the King’s Men (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Penn Warren
- First Published: 1946
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Late 1920’s and early 1930’s
- Setting: Southern United States
- Principal Characters: Jack Burden, Willie Stark, Sadie Burke, Anne Stanton, Adam Stanton, Judge Irwin
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Roman à clef
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Power, personal or social, Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, 1920’s, 1930’s, Blackmail, Politicians, Assassination, Corruption, Scandal, Bribery
- Locales: South (U.S.)
The Story:
When Governor Willie Stark tried to intimidate old Judge Irwin of Burden’s Landing, the judge stood firm against the demagogue’s threats. As a result, Willie ordered Jack Burden to find a scandal in the judge’s past that could ruin the elderly man.
Jack had met Willie back in 1922, when Willie, the county treasurer, and Lucy Stark, his schoolteacher wife, were fighting against a corrupt building contractor who was constructing the new schoolhouse. Sent by his newspaper, The Chronicle, to investigate, Jack found that both Willie and Lucy had lost...
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