All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

Resources from East Meadow (N.Y.) Public Library’s Let’s Talk About It: Land of Opportunity Program

Film Resources

Compiled by Jude Schanzer, Director of Public Relations and Programming, East Meadow (N.Y.) Public Library

All the King’s Men (1949)

Producer: Columbia Pictures

Director: Robert Rossen

Writers: Robert Penn Warren (Pulitzer Prize novel All the King’s Men), Robert Rossen (screen play)

Cast: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland and Mercedes McCambridge

Awards: Won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor (Broderick Crawford), and Best Supporting Actress (Mercedes McCambridge). Nominated for four other Oscars. Won four Golden Globes, NY Critic Award

Rated: Not Rated (Before code)

Running Time: 1 hr. 50 min.

Book Discussion Resources

Compiled by Marion Wrenn, PhD

Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion (1922).

Michael Schudson, Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (New York: Basic Books, 1984).

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Packaging the Presidency: A History and Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising, 3rd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).

Stewart Ewen, Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976).

C. W. Mills, The Sociological Imagination (London: Oxford University Press, 1959).

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (New York: Verso, 1991).

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (New York: Penguin, 1985).

Reviews—New York Review of Books (especially Joyce Carol Oates and Noel Polk on All the King’s Men).

Major Jackson, “Pest,” Callaloo 22, no. 3 (Summer 1999): 986.

Art Resources

Compiled by Barbara Applegate, Director of Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, C.W. Post campus

Title: Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
Creator: Dorothea Lange
Work Type: Photographs
Date: 1936
Location: Exhibited at Whitney Museum of American Art, 23 April–22 August 1999
Material: gelatin silver print
Description: Photographer: Larry Qualls
Repository: Collection Susie Tompkins Buell
Collection: The Image Gallery
Source: Image and original data provided by Larry Qualls

Title: Migrant Mother
Creator: Dorothea Lange
Date: 1936
Description: The Migrant Mother series from Lange’s studies of farm workers
Subject: Dorothea Lange
Collection: The Image Gallery
ID Number: LC-USF34-9097-C 6T36R05
Source: Image and original data from: Virga, Vincent, and Curators of the Library of Congress, with commentary by Alan Brinkley (2004). Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States. Charlestown, MA: Bunker Hill Publishing.
Rights: For more information about this publication, please visit the Library of Congress Shop.

Title: The McLennan County Courthouse in Waco, Texas, Just before a Primary Election
Creator: Dorothea Lange
Date: 1938
Location: United States
Description: U.S. Depression
Subject: Depressions -- 1929 -- United States
History -- United States -- 20th C. A.D
Collection: ARTstor Slide Gallery
Source: Data from University of California, San Diego

Title: The County Election
Creator: George Caleb Bingham,1811–1879
Work Type: Oil paintings. History paintings
Date: 1851–1852
Material: Canvas
Measurements: 35 7/16 x 48 3/4 inches
Description: Painting categorized as “professional” in catalog; oil on canvas
Repository: St. Louis Art Museum
Accession Number: #124.44
Subject: Painting, American -- 19th century. Elections
Collection: The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection
Source: Data from University of Georgia Libraries

Title: Two Citizens
Creator: George Caleb Bingham,1811–1879
Date: 1851–52
Material: pencil, brush, black ink, wash on paper
Measurements: 13-3/4 x 10-1/4 in
Description: Study for The County Election
Subject: Drawing -- United States -- 19th C. A.D; Figure studies, Hats, Preparatory studies
Collection: ARTstor Slide Gallery
Source: Data from University of California, San Diego

Title: Freedom of Speech
Creator: Norman Rockwell, 1894–1978
Date: 1943
Material: oil on canvas for posters
Subject: Painting -- United States -- 20th C. A.D
Collection: ARTstor Slide Gallery
Source: Data from University of California, San Diego

Title: Save Freedom Of Speech: Buy War Bonds
Creator: Norman Rockwell, 1894–1978, United States Office of War Information, Saturday Evening Post
Work Type: War Posters
Period: World War II
Date: 1943
Measurements: 70 x 51 cm
Repository: University of Minnesota Libraries
Subject: War finance, World War, 1939–1945. United States. Posters, War finance, Savings bonds, Communication
Collection: World War I and II Posters and Postcards (University of Minnesota Libraries)
ID Number: Digital: msp02459 Standard: OCLC40636882
Source: Image and original data from University of Minnesota Libraries
Rights: University of Minnesota Libraries

Title: Gangster Funeral
Creator: Jack Levine, 1915–2010
Work Type: Oil paintings
Date: 1952–1953
Material: Canvas
Measurements: 63 x 72 inches
Style Period Expressionist
Description: Oil on canvas
Repository: Whitney Museum of American Art
Accession Number: #53.42
Subject: Painting, American -- 20th century; Gangsters; Funerals
Collection: The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection
Source: Data from University of Georgia Libraries

Title: Study for Gangster’s Funeral
Creator:Jack Levine, 1915–2010
Date: 1952
Subject: Drawing -- United States -- 20th C. A.D; Figure studies, Preparatory studies, Studies (Visual works)
Collection: ARTstor Slide Gallery
Source: Data from University of California, San Diego

Title: House by the Railroad
Creator: Edward Hopper, American, 1882–1967
Work Type: Painting
Date: 1925
Material: Oil on canvas
Measurements: 24" x 29" (61 x 73.7 cm)
Repository: The Museum of Modern Art, Given anonymously
Accession Number: 3.1930
Collection: The Museum of Modern Art: Painting and Sculpture
ID Number: 78330

Title: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Creator: Grant Wood, American, 1892–1942
Work Type: Paintings
Date: 1931
Material: Oil on Masonite
Measurements: H. 30, W. 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Collection: The Image Gallery Formerly in The AMICO Library
ID Number: MMA_.50.117
Source: Data from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Title: Paul Revere
Creator: John Singleton Copley, American, 1738–1815
Work Type: Paintings
Date: 1768
Material: Oil on canvas
Measurements: 89.22 x 72.39 cm (35 1/8 x 28 1/2 in.)
Description: Full View
Repository: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Gift of Joseph W. Revere, William B. Revere, and Edward H. R. Revere 30.781
Collection: The Image Gallery, Formerly in The AMICO Library
ID Number: BMFA.30.781
Source: Data from Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Title: Teapot
Creator: Paul Revere, Jr., 1734–1818
Culture American
Date: 1796
Location: Made in: America, Northeast, Massachusetts, Boston
Material: Silver
Measurements: Overall: 6 1/16 x 11 5/8 in. (15.4 x 29.5 cm); 21 oz. 10 dwt. (668.7 g) Base: 5 11/16 x 3 3/4 in. (14.4 x 9.5 cm)
Description: engraved on body interlaced script:S B lightly scratched on underside: 20 = 13 marked underside: REVERE (in rectangle)
Repository: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art Images for Academic Publishing
ID Number: 8662
Source: Data from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Title: George Washington (Lansdowne portrait)
Creator: Gilbert Stuart, 1755–1828
Work Type: Oil paintings. Portraits. History paintings. Figures (representations)
Date: 1796
Material: Canvas
Technique Commercial portraiture
Measurements: 60 x 25 inches
Repository: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Subject: Washington, George, 1732-1799. Painting, American -- 19th century
Collection: The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection
Source: Data from University of Georgia Libraries

Title: Arts of the West
Creator: Thomas Hart Benton, 1889–1975
Culture American
Work Type: painting
Period: 20th century
Date: 1932
Location: New Britain, CT, New Britain Museum of American Art
Material: egg tempera and oil on linen mounted on panel
Measurements: 244 x 396cm
Style American Regionalism
Collection: FITDIL History of Art Collection
ID Number: HA0007819 HA0007819.tif
Source: Jonathan Fineberg, Art since 1940: Strategies of Being, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 2000
Contributor: Justin O’Connor; data from Fashion Institute of Technology