<p>Welcome to Mr. Dooley's place, a neighborhood saloon in the working-class community of Bridgeport, located on Chicago's near southwest side. Here matters of the gravest import are perused with homespun philosophy and good cheer. Covering the waterfront from Mack's (President McKinley's) foreign policies and political appointments to the Alaskan gold rush and juvenile delinquency, Martin T. Dooley holds forth from behind the bar, benevolently dispensing equal portions of wisdom and comical misunderstanding. As Charlie McCarthy is to Edgar Bergen, so is Martin T. Dooley to newspaper humorist Finley Peter Dunne. "Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War", originally published in 1898, collects brief, humorous pieces Dunne wrote for the "Chicago Evening Post" and the "Chicago Journal". In an Irish-American dialect as thick as the foam on a pint of stout, Mr. Dooley and his friends discuss the military "sthrateejy" for American action in Cuba, "iliction" day shenanigans, Queen Victoria's jubilee, the "new woman," and the strange American sport of football, in which a player puts "a pair iv matthresses on his legs, a pillow behind, [and] a mask over his nose" and tries to kill his fellow men. Through his tall tales and speculations, Mr. Dooley reveals the pleasure and pain of being Irish in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century. Clothed in the charming hyperbole and mislocution of the unflappable Mr. Dooley, Dunne's incisive social criticism flies unerringly to the target, exposing prejudice, hypocrisy, insensitivity, and plain old-fashioned humbug.</p>

MR DOOLEY IN PEACE & WAR (Prairie State Books)

Humor & Entertainment

Dunne, Finley Peter

Humor

University of Illinois Press

This reprint makes one of America's greatest humorists--and one of America's greatest humorous characters--available again to the public.

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War

A collection of the pieces was brought out in book form, received rave reviews from the critics, and was on the best seller list for a year. Dunne moved to New York as a full-time writer and national literary figure.

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Humor & Satire

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Mr. Dooley and the Chicago Irish: An Anthology (Irish Americans Series)

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Arno Pr

<p>Mr. Dooley on Ivrything and Ivrybody</p>

Mr. Dooley on Ivrything and Ivrybody

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Mr. Dooley Says (Large Print Edition)

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Mr. Dooley Says

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