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The Last Hurrah
by Edwin O’Connor
Little, Brown and Company, 1956
 
Frank Skeffington is running for mayor again, probably for the last time since he’s even now 72.  He has presided over this major eastern seaboard city (never named in the book) for much of his adult life and even spent two terms as governor of the state.  [...]

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