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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.
- Edwin O'Connor
- 1956
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.
Edwin O'Connor 's 1956 novel The Last Hurrah, on which the movie is based, is a fictionalized version of former Boston mayor James Michael Curley, a celebrated rogue who raised municipal corruption to an art form.
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James Michael Curley and the Last Hurrah. A native of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and a graduate of Notre Dame in 1939, EDWIN O’CONNOR is on his way to becoming the most distinguished...
Adapted into a 1958 film starring Spencer Tracy and directed by John Ford (and which Curley tried to keep from being made), Edwin O’Connor’s opus reveals politics as it really is, and big cities as they really were.
Sep 10, 2012 · Sentimental, certainly, and featuring a perilously protracted death-bed scene, but with Ford superbly at ease on his Irish-American home ground in an elegiac account of the last, doomed campaign...
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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.
