All The King's Men
The rise of a left wing populist, from an honest church treasurer, to blackmailimg bastard senators in the pocket of Standard Oil and the power companies. Gunned down by a rumour-fuelled conspiracy of rich guys. “Socialism” is never mentioned, this is still America.
But wait, there’s also a subplot about the protagonist, a journalist from a big elite family, a class traitor supporting this upstart socialist.
He is fired from his cushy job in the paper, so he go and does PR for the new governor of Lousiana.
After the power is attained, our protagonist just goes around digging dirt on people that might stand in the way of progress in healthcare, education, and available food for everyone. His lieutenant governor is a formerly corrupt official, and the secretary is pulling double duty as mistress.
The job that makes our protagonist squeal is personal, finding out how corrupt and dirty is a certain judge, the surrogate father he never had. As with most upper class families, our protagonist was an orphan, his father just left one day, and nobody said anything. Her mother married more times, but the father figure was this judge, the owner of the house he was raised in.
He married some rich heiress from Savannah, but that is not the ugly truth, he received kickbacks from power companies to skew decisions in their favour against poor people.
That judge is so righteous, he prefers suicide to being blackmailed by some hick.
Alas, before his death, the judge gets his revenge: he was actually his father all along.
The mistress secretary is pissed by the governor cheating on her with some ice skate bitch, so puts a plan in motion: the governor is also screwing some girl that our protagonist fancied and hurt in the past by refusing sex.
Her brother was hired to direct a new fancy hospital, but got word of some spurious corruption charge.
What tipped him over the edge was knowing her sister was sleeping with the governor for money, the whore! That fucking harlot!
The governor survives impeachment but not a couple shots from a .38, that doctor though he was a fall guy, but the conspiracy came from the other side! What matters is the new governor is a patsy for the moneyed interests, the poor people are fucked once again.
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