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...Family, O'Connor...
...crime laboratories and police academies. The President also surprised Congress with a proposal to combine in a single Department of Business and Labor the interrelated and often overlapping functions of the less than potent Commerce and Labor Departments. Though the plan had enthusiastic backing from both Commerce Secretary John Connor (who coincidentally announced last week that he wants to resign anyway, some time in the next couple of months) and Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz (who has also told the President that he would like a job change), its reception on Capitol Hill was lukewarm...
...Edwin O'Connor's first great novel, The Last Hurrah, was a portrait of a type of politics that died in Boston about 15 years ago. Ever since The Last Hurrah appeared in 1956, people have been expecting O'Connor to produce a novel on the style of the politics that's now practiced in Massachusetts. All in the Family, his latest book, is that novel...
...Famliy is not merely a sequel to The Last Hurrah. It's O'Connor's most thoughtful and most successful attempt yet in dealing with the tensions of the Irish-American family. It's also very funny...
...Connor has an exact ear for the boisterous and outrageous language that the Boston Irish use and his caricatures of prominent Bostonians, especially the one of a certain currently popular Lady Politician, "a great grotesque woman with a huge marshmallow face and a tiny bright red mouth," are subtle and droll...