Robert Penn Warren published All the King’s Men in 1946. It was awarded a Pulitzer Price and turned in three short years into one of the most important films that Hollywood produced in the years just ...

ALL THE KING’S MEN (464 pp.)—Robert Penn Warren — Harcourt, Brace ($3). This novel tells what was behind the show in a southern state like Louisiana with a governor like Huey Long. It is a tough, ...

One of the best-known politicians of the 20th century was Willie Stark, the populist hero who rose to rule his state in All the King's Men. Stark... Willie Stark Lives On MELISSA BLOCK, host: And now ...

Willie Stark, Jack Burden, Adam and Anne Stanton, Sugar-Boy, they were all there standing on the old capitol’s winding stairway and gathered around Huey Long’s desk in the governor’s office. It was ...

Seventy-five years ago this summer, Robert Penn Warren published one of the most seductive accounts of a fictional populist in American literary history. It is in the middle of All the King’s Men, ...

Southern poet Robert Penn Warren always insisted that his Pulitzer Prize-wining novel, "All the King's Men," wasn't about Huey Long, the radical populist governor and U.S. senator of 1930s Louisiana.

Greil Marcus is the author of numerous books, including "The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes." When “All the King’s Men” was published in 1946, it won the Pulitzer Prize ...

How does a writer update her history of America when the past is a battleground and the President wants to erase the truth?

The firing of Tucker Carlson by the Fox Corporation is a peculiarly American kind of denouement. A person born into wealth and influence, pushes, scrambles, and bullies to secure more of each, ...