The Last Hurrah
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#Irish-American_literature
#Novels_about_elections
#Novels_set_in_Boston
#1956_American_novels
#American_novels_adapted_into_films
#Novels_by_Edwin_O'Connor
#Little,_Brown_and_Company_books
The Last Hurrah is a 1956 novel written by Edwin O'Connor.
It is considered the most popular of O’Connor's works, partly because of a 1958 movie adaptation starring Spencer Tracy.
The novel was immediately a bestseller in the United States for 20 weeks, and was also on lists for bestseller of that year.
The Last Hurrah won the 1955 Atlantic Prize Novel award, and was highlighted by the Book-of-the-Month Club and Reader's Digest.
The Last Hurrah received very positive critical reviews, including an "ecstatic" one from the New York Times Book Review.
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.
As a former governor, he is usually called by the honorific title "Governor." While the city is never named, it is frequently assumed to be Boston.
Skeffington is assumed to represent Boston Mayor and Massachusetts Governor James Michael Curley.
The story is told in the third person, either by a narrator or by Adam Caulfield, the mayor's nephew.
Skeffington is a veteran and adept "machine" politician, and probably corrupt as well.
The novel portrays him as a flawed great man with many achievements to his credit.
At the beginning of the book, Skeffington is 72 and has been giving signs that he might consider retiring from public life at the end of his current term.
He surprises many by announcing what he had always intended to do: run for another term as mayor.
The main body of the novel gives a detailed and insightful view of urban politics, tracking Skeffington and his nephew through rounds of campaign appearances and events,
thereby showcasing a dying brand...
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