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.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Illinois Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2001 |
| First published: |
October 2001 |
| Authors: |
Finley Peter Dunne
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 140 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
176 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-252-07029-7 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Sport & Leisure >
Humour >
General
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|
| LSN: |
0-252-07029-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780252070297 |
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