A loosely fictionalized account of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, 'All the King's Men,' tells the story of Willie Stark, a southern-fried politician who builds support by appealing to the common man and playing dirty politics with t...

...[W]hen I entered Louisiana, my imagination was already trapped in speculation about the struggle for power in the world of politics--specifically in a Southern state....[I]f you were living in Louisiana, you knew you were living in...