For example, though no born in the log in the log cabin mandatory for the myth, he was born in a log house – which, though commodious, could be conveniently for his political purposes. Long does not quite represent the classic American success story, but it is close enough to that to lend plausibility to the fiction he sedulously fostered. Furthermore, since Long and his world are so indigenously American, I should, perhaps, say something on that topic to the prospective English reader. But Long and the world he dominated provided the original stimulus for the writing of the novel, and did suggest some of the issues that emerge there. The book was, in fact, declared by several reviewers to be an apologia for fascism.Īfter all these years I have little inclination to reopen old controversies about _All the King's Men_ – controversies which, certainly, could be of little interest to an English reader. Long, and since the hero of my novel is a politician who, like Long, gests himself gunned down in his capitol, it was widely surmised that my book was designed as a fictionalized biography of the Kingfish himself. In August 1946, one of my novels, _All the King's Men_, was published, and since I had lived in Louisiana during the last phase of the regime of Huey P. To Justine and David Mitchell Clay Introduction to the 1974 English Edition
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