11 best political books of all time

Here, according to the staff at Politics & Prose, are 11 of the best political books of all time.

2. "All the King’s Men," by Robert Penn Warren

Maybe someday someone will write a better political novel than Robert Penn Warren’s 1947 Pulitzer Prize winner about the rise of Willie Stark (aka “the Boss”), a power-hungry, populist Southern governor, believed to have been modeled on former Louisiana governor and US Sen. Huey Long. But it hasn’t happened yet.  

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