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All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren

All the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren. First published in 1946, the book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. All the King's Men was then adapted into a movie, which was awarded an Academy Award in 1949.
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All the King's Men is an infamous novel by Robert Penn Warren. In this work, the line between fiction and reality is blurred--as real people appear as fictional characters. Here are a few quotes from the novel.
The Burden of History
For a project in my American Literature class as a junior in high school, I don’t know why the first book I picked up to peruse was Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men. The paperback version that I looked at was over 400 dense pages. I was a slow reader and there were plenty of other, much shorter, novels to choose from. After the first few pages the poetic language hooked me; by the end, the book had changed my life.

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