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''All The King's Men'' is a 1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren, which won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize. It chronicles the life of radically-liberal (in point of fact, populist-socialist) Louisiana governor Willie "the Boss" Stark (in the book and films)/Talos (in the never-properly-completed play), through the eyes of [[Lemony Narrator]] and eventual main character Jack Burden. In particular, it covers Stark's two campaigns for governor, his [[Your Cheating Heart|chronic infidelity]], and his [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|increasingly frenzied]] attempts to create a new state hospital. Almost universally assumed to be [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story|loosely based on the true story]] of [[wikipedia:Huey Long|Louisiana governor Huey Long]]. Highly recommended reading.▼
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▲'''''All The King's Men''''' is a 1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren, which won the 1947 [[Pulitzer Prize]]. It chronicles the life of radically-liberal (in point of fact, populist-socialist) Louisiana governor Willie "the Boss" Stark (in the book and films)/Talos (in the never-properly-completed play), through the eyes of [[Lemony Narrator]] and eventual main character Jack Burden. In particular, it covers Stark's two campaigns for governor, his [[Your Cheating Heart|chronic infidelity]], and his [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|increasingly frenzied]] attempts to create a new state hospital. Almost universally assumed to be [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story|loosely based on the true story]] of [[wikipedia:Huey Long|Louisiana governor Huey Long]]. Highly recommended reading.
Made into a film two times, in 1949 and 2006.▼
▲Made into a film two times, in 1949 and 2006. The 1949 film was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2001.
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* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|The Boss and Adam Stanton both die, but Jack has gotten over his nihilism, accepted the past, and is even married to Anne Stanton. Lucy Stark also seems to have dealt with grief fairly well by raising Tom's probable son..}}
* [[Deep South]]: Although [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?|it's never quite made clear which state the novel is set]], it is ''very'' obviously Southern, and ''probably'' a fictionalized Louisiana.
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