Title: Establishment, The
Description: 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.
Subjects: Fiction, Italian Americans, French Americans, Fiction in English, Large type books, California, fiction, San francisco (calif.), fiction, Italian americans, fiction, Fiction, general, fiction, story series, Italian American families, Anti-communist movements
Places: San Francisco (Calif.), San Francisco, United States
People: Howard Fast
Time periods: Covers the Great fire, start of the century S.F., Roaring 20""s, Depression, Pearl Harbor  as backdrop for characrtors