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...AMERICA HURRAH. Playwright Jean Claude van Itallie casts a searing eye and scathing glance at the contemporary American landscape for an inventively rewarding evening of modern theater...
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...
...picture of the modern campaign which is in All in the Family is nearly as good as that of the old fashioned campaign in The Last Hurrah. If it is less colorful it is because the Electronic Era campaign is less colorful itself than that of the old days. One of the finest and most notable parts of the picture of the new campaign deals with the role of intellectuals in politics...
...AMERICA HURRAH. Three brilliant playlets by Jean-Claude van Itallie refract and reflect some of the dominant, dissonant hues in mid-20th century American life...