"All the King's Men," published in 1946, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by American author Robert Penn Warren. Often considered one of the greatest works of American literature, it is both a gripping political drama and a deep moral inquiry. The story is loosely based on the real-life of Huey P. Long, a flamboyant and controversial governor of Louisiana and then U.S. senator, whose ambition and ruthless tactics marked his career.

The narrative is driven by Jack Burden, a former history student turned investigative journalist, and later a close aide to Willie Stark, the central character whose rise and fall the novel chronicles. Stark starts his political career as an idealistic man of the people but becomes increasingly corrupt and manipulative as he gains power.