All the Governor's Men

"All the Governor's Men is a delightful, oversexed romp through Alabama society and politics. Big kudos to Katherine Clark for nailing Alabama society, culture, and politics so true. As a nearly life-long resident of the Heart of Dixie, I nodded again and again as I read. For those attempting to understand a sometimes baffling state, All the Governor's Men provides considerable illumination."—John Sledge, author of Southern Bound and The Mobile River

"With scathing but affectionate humor, Clark hooks the reader from the beginning with Daniel Dobb's epic quest to save Alabama from itself and its twisted history. Clark's often irreverent, even naughty tone, as she explores the relationship between the two Harvard-educated characters from Alabama— the Opelika boy with political aspirations and the Mountain Brook belle with brains—doesn't detract from the serious portrayal of class and racial divisions in this brave, at times scandalous, and brilliant parody of the tiny kingdom and the backroom politics and small town mentality within the state at large."—Lanier Scott Isom, journalist and co-author of Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond

"All the Governor's Men tells the intimate story of one Alabama election that seems so authentic and universal it could stand as a case study in the ruinous underworld of politics everywhere. . . . Katherine's novel illustrates how fools can disguise themselves as idealists, and even as heroes, until the mask of idealism falls away to reveal a grotesque—or, worse yet—an all-too-human visage beneath. . . . Her power as a novelist is on full display in her comic, shrewd and unflagging interrogation of the South on the cusp of reluctant but nonetheless metamorphic change."—Pat Conroy, from the foreword