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It highlights Frank Skeffington’s final mayoral campaign, portraying him as corrupt yet charming, humane, and capable of inspiring affection. The text contrasts Skeffington with his opponent Kevin McCluskey, framed as a manufactured television-like mediocrity. 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book...the story of acharmer...the last of his wonder-ful,gaudy race.certainly one ofthe most delightful novels everwritten about American politics\"  \nR EPORT BY Clifton Fadiman  \nThe Last Hurrah is doubly timely.First,one of theshrewdest,certainly one of the most delightful novelsever written about American politics,it arrives during  \nan election year.Second,a good novel is always timely—and this is more thanmerely good.Already crowned as the winner of the Atlantic Prize Novel Contest,it is a book which your judges feel jubilant in being able to offer to members.  \nJubilant is the apt adjective.The Last Hurrah “exposes”nothing,excepthuman nature in vast quantity.It despairs of nothing,except the possibilityof most of us becoming saints.It ends with the death of its main character,but few deathbed scenes have been as heart-warming and even humorous asthe one which caps the career of Frank Skeffington.The Last Hurrah,from  \nfirst page to last,fills the reader with a sense of life's exuberanceand varicolored contradictions.Its fantastic human beings couldbe revealed only to an eye as keen,a heart as warm,a mind as justas Mr.O'Connor's.From all of which you will gather that minewill not be the last hurrah to greet The Last Hurrah.  \nThis is the story of a charmer.The charmer is an Irish-American,aged 72,a politician and proud of it,something of a crook,some-thing of a blackmailer,a good deal of a demagogue.By all thelaws of morality he should repel us;and he begins and ends bymaking us fall in love with him,just as for many years the trustingelectorate of an unnamed American city(could it be.Boston?)have fallen in love with him.It is not only that he has kissed theBlarney Stone—that would merely make him an Irishman.It is  \nthat to the gift of gab he adds a whole treasury of other talents—eminent among them wit,humor,love of his people and even,by thesomewhat dim lights of the political system which has produced him,akind of craggy integrity.  \nThe story is about Frank Skeffington's last campaign for the mayoralty.It isalso a portrait of a type of politician now becoming extinct—the city boss,whose corruptness (and Skeffington is corrupt)is mitigated by a genuine benev-olence toward his people and a perfect understanding of their problems.It is inaddition a dexterous study of Irish-Americans:their beginnings in abjectpoverty and the reasons lying back of their political ascendancy.  \nThe Last Hurrah is other things as well:an exact,hilariously funny pictureof the actual workings of ward and municipal politics-a dirty,fascinatingbusiness streaming with the juices of rough-and-tumble life.As Skeffingtonsays to his nephew,politics is \"the greatest spectator sport in the country.\"No contrast could be more sharply drawn than that which opposes Skeffingtonand his young opponent Kevin McCluskey:Skeffington,all wit and genius,rich in personality,resourceful,tireless,aggressive,capable of inspiring affectioneven among his enemies,his major weapon his actual man-to-man contactwith the voters;and McCluskey,a nicely dressed mediocrity,mass-produced,  \nbarren of ideas,a pure television personality of the kind that is already begin-ning to dominate our national as well as our city politics.  \nSkeffington is a tribal chieftain,the last of his wonderful,gaudy race;McCluskey the first of his,cautious,neutral,all-things-to-all-men,reekingwith built-up advertising-agency \"charm.\"Skeffington is a rascal—but withthe attractiveness of Robin Hood.McCluskey does not have the brains to bea rascal—he is something far more objectionable,he is maneuverable.TheSkeffingtons,for all their dishonesty,cannot avoid doing some good,becausethey are developed human beings.The McCluskeys,for all their well-televisedhappy home lives,cannot avoid doing some evil,for they are human mainlyin the dic","cbCair80EZP3ajba","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCair80EZP3ajba","pdf",2792038,28,"English","# R EPORT BY Clifton Fadiman\n## The Last Hurrah as a timely, 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