- Drama, Fiction, Political corruption, Politicians
The story is about Willie Stark, a slick politician of humble birth, who was based on real-life Huey Long, a Louisiana governor, but the real main character is Jack Burden, a reporter who serves to narrate the story and Stark's rise to power.
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Grave, earnest, prestige and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Robert Penn Warren
- First published
- 1946
- Pages
- 518
- Publisher
- "OLMA-Press", Eyre and Spottiswoode, Eyre & Spottiswoode
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- English, Chinese, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780450037665
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“TO GET there you follow Highway 58, going northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new.”
Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, literary critic and professor at Yale University.
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