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For Power or Love Many people would do almost anything to survive in the 1930's because of the Great Depression. Robert Penn Warren's All the Kings Men shows what people would do to stay in power and survive during the Great Depression. People worked for 15 cents or less and many worked for food and shelter which kept them alive. Farmers, stock holders, and many classes of different societies lost their jobs. Banks closed and could not give out the money that they were holding, almost everyone lost all that they had in the banks. Governors became corrupt and gangs began to form. All the Kings Men shows how Willie Stark the Governor of Louisiana black mailed, bribed and threatened others to get out of his way so he could stay in power. In 1946 Warren wrote All the Kings Men which represents Warrens years as a college student at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The book it self is a great novel and it represents his college years at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In that novel Warren shows corrupt governors and people in the 1930s. Warrens All the Kings Men has a corrupt governor Huey Long and Warren does not give out the persons name instead he names him Willie Stark. Although critics now know that Warren clearly describes Willie as Huey Long. When Warren was in Vanderbilt, he became very interested in poetry so he joined two poetic groups in 1920. The Fugitives and the Agrarians. The Fugitives were a private poetry group that met off campus were they wrote, read and discussed each others literature works. Warren met several important literate characters while he was a member of the Fugitives. He met Allen Tate, Andrew Lytle and John Crowe Ransom. While being a member of the Fugitives Warren developed his writing and poetic skills.
Approximate Word count = 1212
Approximate Pages = 4.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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