Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years

by Charles Fanning

Finley Peter Dunne, American journalist and humorist, is justly famous for his creation of Mr. Dooley, the Chicago Irish barkeep whose weekly commentary on national politics, war, and human nature kept Americans chuckling over their newspapers for nearly two decades at the beginning of this century. Largely forgotten in the files of Chicago newspapers, however, are over 300 Mr. Dooley columns written in the 1890s before national syndication made his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813151910
• ISBN13: 9780813151915
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"