All In The Family

Boston, MA / London, England: Atlantic / Little Brown. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1966. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0316626422 . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is generally clean and bright. The front cover has several small spots of rubbing. The spine of the book has light toning and ground in dirt. There are a couple of small edge nicks to the dust jacket edges as well. "His last novel, All in the Family, appeared in 1966. (It has no relation at all to the later television series of the same name. ) It is a story of a Massachusetts family with a father who has political ambitions for his sons. As with The Last Hurrah, it is not a roman à clef but the clan is certainly reminiscent of the Kennedy family. "Edwin O'Connor, the author of The Last Hurrah, summed up the era in his final novel, All in the Family: 'Corruption here had a shoddy, penny-ante quality it did not have in other states....Here everything was up for grabs and nothing was too small to steal....In our politics there seemed to be a depthless cushion of street-corner cynicism, a special kind of tainted, small-time fellowship which sent out a complex of vines and shoots so interconnected that even the sleaziest poolroom bookie managed, in some way, however obscure, to be in touch with the mayor's office or the governor's chair.' "" (from Wikipedia) .