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11. Dez. 2022 · by Edwin O'Connor. “We’re living in a sensitive age, Cuke, and I’m not altogether sure you’re fully attuned to it.”. So says Irish-American politician Frank Skeffington—a cynical, corrupt 1950s mayor, and also an old-school gentleman who looks after the constituents of his New England city and enjoys their unwavering loyalty in return.
19. Juni 2022 · October 25, 2012. The Last Hurrah, published in the mid-nineteen fifties, was Edwin O'Connor's first success and his most popular novel. The plot of The Last Hurrah focuses on a mayoral election in an unnamed East Coast city. Veteran Irish, Democratic Party politician Frank Skeffington is running for yet another term as Mayor.
25. Apr. 2016 · The Last Hurrah, a great novel written by Edwin O'Connor in 1955, is the best treatise on American state and local politics to this day. While it doesn't deal with the huge campaign contributions from lobbyists and special interest groups, it explains, in a great read, how our system works (or not). The story is about the Curley administration in Boston, MA. - the patronage, illicit ...
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the last hurrah by Edwin O'Connor ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 6, 1955 While this has none of the vitriolic bite of Dos Passos' Number One, there is inevitably a comparison to be made, as Edwin O'Connor writes the story of an Irish politician, mayor of a city (perhaps modelled on Boston?) for the major part of his half century in politics.
The Last Hurrah. (1958 film) The Last Hurrah is a 1958 American political satire film adaptation of the 1956 novel The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor. It was directed by John Ford and stars Spencer Tracy as a veteran mayor preparing for yet another election campaign. Tracy was nominated as Best Foreign Actor by BAFTA and won the Best Actor Award ...
Edwin Greene O'Connor (July 29, 1918 – March 23, 1968) [1] was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel The Edge of Sadness (1961). His ancestry was Irish, and his novels concerned the Irish-American experience and often dealt with the lives of politicians and priests.
