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What of the book\'s political morality? It was a pity that the reviewers regarded All the King\'s Men as primarily another life of Huey Long to be compared with the other lives of Long and not with the other works of Warren. It must be obvious by now, if my account of the book is half-way accurate, that it is not a political treatise about Long or anything else. Like Proud Flesh, it is another study of Warren\'s constant theme: self-knowledge. Nevertheless, it has political implications--and we will understand them correctly if we see them within the broader frame. Indeed, to say that we must see politics within a broader frame--the frame being morality and human life in general--is precisely Warren\'s thesis. Willie Stark, Adam Stanton, and Tiny Duffy are wrong politically because they are wrong humanly.
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