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ABOUT THE PLAY
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All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren’s classic examination of politics and demagoguery, traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey P. Long, one of the country’s most flamboyant and forceful political figures. Known as “The Kingfish,” Long was a radical populist who served as
Louisiana
’s Governor from 1928-1932 and a U.S. Senator from 1932-1935. During the Great Depression, he championed a plan to help the poor called “Share Our Wealth” and took on his state’s lumber, sugar and oil industries. In his obsessive pursuit of power, he was also reviled as a dictator who stopped at nothing to get what he wanted. He was assassinated in September 1935.
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