This novel's protagonist comes to understand his ancestor Cass Mastern after inadvertently causing the death of Judge Irwin.
In the final sentence of this novel, the protagonist vows to step "out of history into history and the awful responsibility of time." Warnings about football come true when its title character's son, the quarterback Tom, breaks his spine after impregnating Sibyl Frey. In this novel, the surgeon Adam Stanton murders a man who charged him with a six million dollar public hospital. This novel's protagonist comes to understand his ancestor Cass Mastern after inadvertently causing the death of Judge Irwin. In this novel, Jack Burden describes the gradual corruption of his friend, the politician Willie Stark. For 10 points, name this Robert Penn Warren novel about a corrupt governor inspired by Huey Long.
In the final sentence of this novel, the protagonist vows to step "out of history into history and the awful responsibility of time.
All the King's Men