MR. DOOLEY: IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN

BOSTON: SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY, 1899 GOOD LOOKING DARK BLUE COVER, GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. SLIGHT WEAR EDGES. FORMER OWNERS STAMP INSIDE FRONT, VERY GOOD SHAPE, CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. WRITTEN IN AN ENGLISH/ IRISH DIALECT. PICTURE OF PAGES IN BOOK PICS. GREAT HISTORY. Finley Peter Dunne (July 10, 1867 ¿ April 24, 1936) was an American humorist and writer from Chicago. In 1898 Dunne published Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War, a collection of his nationally syndicated Mr. Dooley sketches. Mr. Dooley (or Martin J. Dooley) is a fictional Irish immigrant bartender created by American journalist Finley Peter Dunne. Dooley was the subject of many Dunne columns between 1893 and 1915, and again in 1924 and 1926. Dunne's essays contain the bartender's commentary on various topics (often national or international affairs). They became extremely popular during the 1898 Spanish¿American War and remained so afterwards; they are collected in several books. The essays are in the form of conversations in Irish dialect between Mr. Dooley, who in the columns owns a tavern in the Bridgeport area of Chicago, and one of the fictional bar's patrons (in later years, usually Malachi Hennessy) with most of the column a monologue by Dooley. The pieces are not widely remembered, but originated lasting sayings such as "the Supreme Court follows the election returns". ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.