All the King's Men September 27, 2012

Jack Burden is a newspaper reporter who first hears of Willie Stark when his editor sends him to cover the man. What’s special about this nobody running for county treasurer? He’s supposedly an honest man. He’s also a know-nothing hick whose schoolteacher wife has given him what little education he has. Stark loses the race for treasurer, but later makes his way through law school, becoming an idealistic attorney. Someone in the governor’s employ remembers Stark when the governor needs a patsy to run against him and split the vote of his rival. The fat cats underestimate Stark. Approved for general audiences.