The narrator's father commits suicide when blackmailed about a bribe from American Electric Power Company, and the cover-up of that bribe allows the narrator to blackmail a famous surgeon into heading a hospital.
Corruption is revealed in this work through a letter to Mrs. Littlepaugh, who exposes a scandal to the narrator. The narrator's father commits suicide when blackmailed about a bribe from American Electric Power Company, and the cover-up of that bribe allows the narrator to blackmail a famous surgeon into heading a hospital. The hospital deal is called off after Tom breaks his neck playing football, and the revelation that Anne has been sleeping with Willy causes Adam Stanton to plan an assassination. Narrated by Jack Burden and centering on the political career of Willy Stark is, for 10 points, what novel by Robert Penn Warren based on the career of Huey Long?
Corruption is revealed in this work through a letter to Mrs. Littlepaugh, who exposes a scandal to the narrator.
{All the King’s Men}