All the King’s Menby Robert Penn Warren. “An American classic. Just so, so good. Originally published in 1946, it won the Pulitzer Prize the following year and remains one of the best novels about politics ever written. It's the story of Willie Stark, a character loosely based on Louisiana Governor Huey Long. All The King's Men is set in swampy Louisiana back in the 1930s, but the dirty politics and back-room scheming will ring true to anybody who follows the ways of Washington in the 21st century.”
