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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.

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