All in the Family Huizinga and the United States

and the United States

the book explores the key figures and ideas which have lent shape and substance to the liberal arts tradition

Such is the perceptive power of the novel that

Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline

All in the Family Huizinga and the United StatesBy Edwin O'Connor All in the Family, first published in 1964, is a portrait of the Kinsellas, a prominent and proud Irish American New England clan: Uncle Jimmy at its head; his three sonsJames, Phil and Charles; and their cousin Jack, the novels narrator. Jack and his cousins become fast friends in boyhood, and these friendships endure as they grow upJames to the priesthood, Phil and Charles to the law, and Jack, after a brief foray in politics