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(0)Robert Penn Warren
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
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Set in the 1930s, this novel traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Talos, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success, caught between dreams of service and a lust for power.
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Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
Amantha Starr, born and raised by a loving father on a plantation in pre-Civil War Kentucky, embarks on a lifelong search for answers about her tangled past when she learns, upon her father's death, that her mother was a slave and that she, too, is about to be sold into servitude.
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Publisher
Louisiana State Univ. Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A collection of all of the published poetry of the first Poet Laureate of the United States features collations of all versions of the poems, accompanied by textual and explanatory notes. Winner of the 1998 Jules and Frances Laundry Award. In this indispensable volume, John Burt has assembled every poem (with the exception of Brother to Dragons) ever published by Robert Penn Warren.
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Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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"Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, All the King's Men is one of the most famous and widely read works in American fiction. Its original publication by Harcourt catapulted author Robert Penn Warren to fame and made the novel a bestseller for many seasons. Set in the 1930s, it traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie [Stark] Talos, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Willie Stark is an uncorrupted small-town mayor in 1950s Louisiana. He gets picked by the political machine to run as a wild card candidate in the upcoming gubernatorial race. But, when Willie realizes that he is being manipulated, he veers off on his own to become the darling of the electorate's downtrodden and forgotten hicks. Covering the campaign for a local paper is Jack Burden, whose editorial pieces become so admiring of Willie that he's fired....
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