The Last Hurrah [filmed by John Ford] - 1959/ Edwin O'Connor

Edwin O'Connor - The Last Hurrah, Bites beneath the surface of a big city life - Edition in the series 'Pan Giant' no.X34 - London, Pan Books Ltd, 1959 - 1st edition in this format - 382+2p.(pub.) - Softcover: polychrome paper binding with straight spine/paperback format - 11.20x17.60cm - Good copy: age discolouration on the text block edges, signs of use on the cover - Inspiration for the film 'The Last Hurrah' (1958) with starring: Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster, Pat O'Brien, Basil Rathbone.

•       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. (Source: Wikipedia)
•       Edwin Greene O'Connor (1918–1968) 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. (Source: Wikipedia)

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