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I thought I knew what this book was going to be about -- the fictional telling of the Huey Long story -- but it is actually a much deeper novel than that. While politics does form the basis for much of the plot line, the real story is about coming to understand and accept the divisions within oneself -- to make good out of bad. Jack Burden, the narrator, is as important (more important?) than Willie Stark to the novel and he learns that everything "touched" in life (by action or inaction) has co
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