All The King's Men

Well, I'd start with All the King's Men. This is an old one by Robert Penn Warren, and there's lots in it about party conventions and all the dealmaking that goes on.

All the King's Men was a good one.

We discussed all the Kingsmen, the best American political novel ever written.

This month's book is all the King's men by Robert Penn Warren, the best political novel of all time. Great novel about America and the meaning of politics.

Next month, we'll be discussing All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, maybe the best political novel ever written.

In the amazing and must-read 1946 novel All the King's Men, the character Adam Stanton is like this. Because he is a romantic, Jack Burton, the narrator explains, he has a picture of the world in his head. And when the world doesn't conform in respect to the picture, he wants to throw the world away.

While Adam Stanton was throwing the baby out with the bath, Marcus Aurelius was writing, if the cucumber is bitter, throw it out. If there are brambles in the path, go around.

I'm rereading Robert Penn Warren's kingfish right now oh yeah all the kingsmen all the kingsmen and obviously I read it maybe 10 years ago when I lived in New Orleans and I'm reading it now and it's just like it's remarkable how oh this is just politics today like he's talking about newspapers and you know rallies today we're talking about social media and rallies but it's the same thing