All the King's Men / by Robert Penn Warren

HBJ Modern Classic, Harcourt Brace, 1990. Hardcover. VG/VG. 

All the King's Men traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Stark, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success and the lust for power, a gripping tale of political corruption.