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Maybe it's time to reread

All the King's Men. Sherry at Semicolon is one of my favorite book reviewers. Today she's taken another look at this 1947 novel by Robert Penn Warren whose character Willie Stark appears to be Huey Long, Governor of Louisiana in the 1930s.

"Willie has a gift for making the poor white hicks of rural Louisiana feel as if they’re an important part of the power structure. He’s one of them, he says, a hick, too, raised up by God to lead them on to good roads, decent sanitation, free education, and universal health care. And he’ll pay for it all by taxing the rich. Gee, haven’t we all heard that speech before? Maybe old Huey/Willie has been reincarnated several times since the 1930’s."

Read it here. She hosts an interesting Saturday Review of Books where you can contribute one of your own book reviews from your blog. I don't read enough books to participate, but it sure looks like fun.