Mr. Dooley on the Education of the Young

Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) was known as “Mr. Dooley”, and appears under that name in some of his humorous essays, in which this persona expounded upon the world’s problems from his quintessential Irish pub. Born in Chicago, the fifth of seven children in an Irish Catholic immigrant family, Dunne eventually moved to New York and became editor of Collier’s Weekly. A long-time newspaper man, he covered political party conventions and both criticized and won the admiration of leading politicians, including Theodore Roosevelt. But he was perhaps best-known for his homespun Dooley pieces, of which he wrote more than 700, and which became known as a popular repository of timely commentary.

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