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Establishment, The

Howard Fast

1979365 pagesabout 6–8 hours
1979
first published
  • 1979Houghton Mifflin · 365 pages · ENGISBN 9780395281604
  • 1979G. K. Hall · 648 pages · ENGISBN 9780816130030
  • 1980Hodderand Stoughton · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9780340233900
  • 1980Dell · 491 pages · ENGISBN 9780440122968
  • 1981Hodder and Stoughton · 365 pages · ENGISBN 9780340255506
  • 2010Sourcebooks Landmark · 433 pages · ENGISBN 9781402237935
  • 1989Unabridged Library Edition · ENGISBN 9781561000401
  • 1982Dell · ENGISBN 9780440123934

This is the third book in a series of 4 about the Lafette family. The central charactor is Dan Lafette a lager than life personality who finds success, failure and doom in personal finance and the relationships closest to him. As many of Fast books the historic landscape the charactors past through appears accurate. Who blossoms from the text is Barbra Laffette, Dan youngest a woman of integrity. There is a later book that focuses on her. Rich charactors, interactions reflecting the yin/yang of human nature I've read the series twice and will again. Series begins w The Immigrants, continues w Second generation.

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