Dr. Kookie, You're Right!

by Mike Royko

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525248137
• ISBN13: 9780525248132
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Another Great Collection of Royko

This is a great collection of columns by Chicago newspaperman Mike Royko from the mid-late 1980's. Arguably the nation's top daily columnist, Royko (1932-1997) stood for fairness and gave readers chuckles with a nice mix of seriousness and humor. Here he offers insights on such 80's (and non-80's) subjects as street preachers, religious hypocrites, vanity, Wall Street greed, getting robbed at gunpoint, street people, and tragedy. He also looks at such then-newsworthy figures as Gary Hart, Jessica Hahn, Ayatollah Khomeini, Dan Quayle, Mayor Harold Washington, Ronald Reagan, and others. Royko could be quite serious, but usually aimed for laughs as he poked fun (often at himself) rather than made harsh attacks. No wonder so many people in our city still miss him. When Royko passed in 1997, fellow writer Studs Terkel said that the way to learn about Chicago during the later 20th Century was to read Mike Royko. That's good advice and you can get many chuckles by doing it, too.

A Lost Art: Honest and Hilarious Journalism

Mike Royko was a one of a kind, make that one in a million. He was a great Chicago personality and one of the most hilarious columnists ever. This is a really brilliant work. The columns start well with the title one: his "religion" headed by Dr. Kookie, which believes that the origin of human race is neither evolution nor creationism. Instead they believe that a peaceful alien planet faced a problem of a certain percentage of stupid, ignorant, and intolerable citizens and decided they would round them all up and drop them here. Quite a plausible theory, I think. He also makes many oft-hilarious pokes at the yuppy lifestyle, public television "insect love-making", his ideas on losing weight (if you like it, don't eat it; if you hate it, keep it coming), and many more lofty topics. His columns, though parodies, show a great insight into the modern world that still rings through nearly a decade later.

Another great collection of Royko strips

The late Mike Royko was the best newspaper columnist in America, largely because he was funny and because he used the power of his column to champion causes no one else would touch. He had a strong sense of justice and fair play that shines through in his written words. "Dr. Kookie" is the last of the original books collecting his columns and covers the latter half of the 1980s. His was a voice of moral conscience during that go-go money-making period. Anyone with an interest in journalism should read this book and take a lesson from the master.