All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

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Review by David Tucker:
All the King's Men is the story of a smart, ambitious boy growing up poor in a backward Southern state. Filled with a longing for something great, he becomes a lawyer, makes a good marriage and enters politics. Eventually, after several setbacks and comebacks, he becomes a master politician and is elected Governor. He feels people's pain and articulates their longings. He wants to help them. He is also an adulterer, finances his political activity through corruption and uses the State Police for his own purposes, both personal and political. Winner of the the Pulitzer Prize and much praise for the force of its richly colloquial narrative, its compelling plot, and its insightful characterizations, fifty years after its publication All the King's Men deserves to be remembered not only for these qualities, but even more so for its keen and still relevant diagnosis of our political life.