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A 1956 novel by Edwin O'Connor and a 1958 film based on the novel starring [[Spencer Tracy]], the story concerns the [[The Irish Diaspora|Irish-American]] mayor of a big American city that bears a [[No Communities Were Harmed|suspicious resemblance]] to [[
Of course, not everybody is so enamored of Skeffington's antics, and in both the film and the novel, we meet plenty of the people who want to bring him down- including Caulfield's own father-in-law and Caulfield's boss, newspaper editor [[Politically-Incorrect Villain|Amos Force]]. These include even the city's Roman Catholic Cardinal, who thinks Skeffington is a walking embarrassment to Roman Catholics and to Irish-Americans.
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