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All the King's Men

Robert Penn Warren

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1946
Pages
Pages 660

An aide to a Southern governor watches him turn from reformer into a ruthless boss, blackmailing and crushing anyone in his way. Digging for dirt unearths a scandal in his family, and the governor is finally shot dead by a man he ruined.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud.
All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren

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