All the King's Men | Characters
All the King's Men describes the rise and fall of Willie Stark, a political boss and governor of an unnamed southern state, during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The state is a thinly disguised Louisiana, and readers and critics have drawn inevitable parallels between Stark and Huey Long, governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932. Enormously popular with his poor white constituency — which was suffering terribly from economic havoc wreaked by the Great Depression — Long was fiercely dedicated to improving the standard of living in rural Louisiana through tax reform, expansion of paved...
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