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Article: An Era's Last Hurrah.(A Family Of His Own: A Life Of Edwin O'Connor)(Book Review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
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- August 1, 2004
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A FAMILY OF His OWN: A LIFE OF EDWIN O'CONNOR. By CHARLES F. DUFFY. Catholic University of America Press. 464 pp. $49.95.
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 1945 and 1963--somewhere, in fact, around the publication of Edwin &Connor's The Last Hurrah in 1956--a certain kind of Catholic culture crested in America. There's a temptation to say it has been slowly ebbing ever since, making its melancholy, long retreat down the naked shingles of the world. But, in truth, that old Catholic tide fled the American shore in a headlong rush. By, say, the late 1960s, what was left? A few Flannery O'Connor smiles. A Walker Percy novel or two. A vague memory that the Australian Morris West's ...
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Article: O'CONNOR'S HASTY DECISION IS IN THE CARDS; UNDRAFTED SU ...
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April 23, 2002 ;
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... ... happened." The draft ended and O'Connor, a first-team All-Big East ... the decision was made among O'Connor, his agent and his family to look at three finalists ... They needed to know if O'Connor was coming on board or whether ...
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