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464 pp (hardcover 1st edition) All the King's Men is a 1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren. The novel tells the story of charismatic populist governor Willie Stark and his political machinations in the Depression-era Deep South. It was inspired by the real-life story of U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, who was assassinated in 1935.
April 24, 1981. (1981-04-24) Houston Grand Opera. Willie Stark is an opera in three acts and nine scenes by Carlisle Floyd to his own libretto, after the 1946 novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, which in turn was inspired by the life of the Louisiana governor Huey Long. The opera was commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera, which ...
Jack Burden, a Louisiana news reporter, takes a personal interest in Willie Stark, an idealistic small-town lawyer and parish treasurer. Circumstances develop that result in Tiny Duffy, a local political leader Burden knows, urging Stark to run for governor.
Five governors have served nonconsecutive terms. Andre B. Roman, Francis T. Nicholls, and Jimmie Davis each served two non-consecutive terms, while Earl Long and Edwin Edwards both served in three distinct stints. In the event of a vacancy, the President of the Senate originally acted as governor. [31] The 1845 constitution created the office ...
Willie ends up winning the election in a landslide and is portrayed by newsreels as either a prairie messiah or incipient dictator. During his time as Governor, Stark ends up utilizing his power in aggressive and corrupt ways as Burden develops a black book of biographical leverage to extract political favors and votes in support of their ...
e. Huey Pierce Long Jr. (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), nicknamed " The Kingfish ", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. He was a left-wing populist member of the Democratic Party and rose to national ...
Willie Stark's transformation from a naïve fighter for the rights of the poor into a cynical populist and demagogue does not appear at all, and, accordingly, Jack's role in this evolution is also omitted. The history of the relationships between Jack, Judge Irwin, Adam and Anna, and the Burden and Stanton families are mostly excluded, with ...
Main character Willie Stark resembles Huey Pierce Long (1893–1935), the radical populist governor of Louisiana whom Warren was able to observe closely while teaching at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge from 1933 to 1942.