This week, we feature a sobering assortment: potent novels on how power corrupts, moving poetry of World War I, and a history of the winter at Valley Forge.
Fiction
When Power Corrupts
‘All the King’s Men’ By Robert Penn Warren“All the King’s Men” is one of the most potent stories of how power can corrupt even the seemingly incorruptible. When honest and well-meaning Willie Stark is urged into becoming governor, his new power proves too much to rescind, leading to the inevitable.
