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Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley

The Chicago Years

By: Charles Fanning

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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 name a household word. Charles Fanning offers here the first critical examination of these early Dooley pieces, which, far better than the later ones, reveal the depth and development of the character and his creator. Dunne created in Mr. Dooley a vehicle for expressing his criticism of Chicago's corruption despite the conservatism of most of his publishers. Dishonest officials who could not be safely attacked in plain English could be roasted with impunity in the "pure Roscommon brogue" of a fictional comic Irishman. In addition, Dunne painted, through the observations of his comic persona, a vivid and often poignant portrait of the daily life of Chicago's working-class Irish community and the impact of assimilation into American life. He also offered cogent views of American urban political life, already dominated by the Irish as firmly in Chicago as in other large American cities, and of the tragicomic phenomenon of Irish nationalism. Mr. Fanning's penetrating examination of these early Dooley pieces clearly establishes Dunne as far more than a mere humorist. Behind Mr. Dooley's marvelously comic pose and ironic tone lies a wealth of material germane to the social and literary history of turn-of-the century America.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813187958

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9780813187952

The Irish Voice in America

250 Years of Irish-American Fiction

By: Charles Fanning

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The Irish Voice in America

250 Years of Irish-American Fiction

By: Charles Fanning

In this study, Charles Fanning has written the first general account of the origins and development of a literary tradition among American writers of Irish birth or background who have explored the Irish immigrant or ethnic experience in works of fiction. The result is a portrait of the evolving fictional self-consciousness of an immigrant group over a span of 250 years. Fanning traces the roots of Irish-American writing back to the eighteenth century and carries it forward through the traumatic years of the Famine to the present time with an intensely productive period in the twentieth century beginning with James T. Farrell. Later writers treated in depth include Edwin O'Connor, Elizabeth Cullinan, Maureen Howard, and William Kennedy. Along the way he places in the historical record many all but forgotten writers, including the prolific Mary Ann Sadlier. The Irish Voice in America is not only a highly readable contribution to American literary history but also a valuable reference to many writers and their works. For this second edition, Fanning has added a chapter that covers the fiction of the past decade. He argues that contemporary writers continue to draw on Ireland as a source and are important chroniclers of the modern American experience.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813184061

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9780813184067

The Secret War in El Paso

Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906-1920

By: Charles H. Harris,Louis R. Sadler

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The Secret War in El Paso

Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906-1920

By: Charles H. Harris,Louis R. Sadler

Winner of the 2010 Spur Award for Best Contemporary Nonfiction from Western Writers of America The Mexican Revolution could not have succeeded without the use of American territory as a secret base of operations, a source of munitions, money, and volunteers, a refuge for personnel, an arena for propaganda, and a market for revolutionary loot. El Paso, the largest and most important American city on the Mexican border during this time, was the scene of many clandestine operations as American businesses and the U.S. federal government sought to maintain their influences in Mexico and protect national interest while keeping an eye on key Revolutionary figures. In addition, the city served as refuge to a cast of characters that included revolutionists, adventurers, smugglers, gunrunners, counterfeiters, propagandists, secret agents, double agents, criminals, and confidence men. Using 80,000 pages of previously classified FBI documents on the Mexican Revolution and hundreds of Mexican secret agent reports from El Paso and Ciudad Juarez in the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Relations archive, Charles Harris and Louis Sadler examine the mechanics of rebellion in a town where factional loyalty was fragile and treachery was elevated to an art form. As a case study, this slice of El Paso's, and America's, history adds new dimensions to what is known about the Mexican Revolution.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826346545

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9780826346544

The Texas Rangers in Transition

From Gunfighters to Criminal Investigators, 1921–1935

By: Charles H. Harris,Louis R. Sadler

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The Texas Rangers in Transition

From Gunfighters to Criminal Investigators, 1921–1935

By: Charles H. Harris,Louis R. Sadler

Official Texas Ranger Bicentennial™ Publication Newly rich in oil money, and all the trouble it could buy, Texas in the years following World War I underwent momentous changes—and those changes propelled the transformation of the state’s storied Rangers. Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler explore this important but relatively neglected period in the Texas Rangers’ history in this book, a sequel to their award-winning The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910–1920. In a Texas awash in booze and oil in the Prohibition years, the Rangers found themselves riding herd on gamblers and bootleggers, but also tasked with everything from catching murderers to preventing circus performances on Sunday. The Texas Rangers in Transition takes up the Rangers’ story at a time of political turmoil, as the largely rural state was rapidly becoming urban. At the same time, law enforcement was facing an epidemic of bank robberies, an increase in organized crime, the growth of the Ku Klux Klan, Prohibition enforcement—new challenges that the Rangers met by transitioning from gunfighters to criminal investigators. Steeped in tradition, reluctant to change, the agency was reduced to its nadir in the depths of the Depression, the victim of slashed appropriations, an antagonistic governor, and mediocre personnel. Harris and Sadler document the further and final change that followed when, in 1935, the Texas Rangers were moved from the governor’s control to the newly created Department of Public Safety. This proved a watershed in the Rangers’ history, marking their transformation into a modern law enforcement agency, the elite investigative force that they remain to this day.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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080616364X

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9780806163642

A Centennial history of the city of Chicago – Its men and institutions

By: Charles Anderson Dana

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A Centennial history of the city of Chicago – Its men and institutions

By: Charles Anderson Dana

For sure this book can not claim that it is a complete, comprehensive history of Chicago's first 100 years, but the publishers believe it contains more important facts concerning the growth of the city during the first century of its existence than many other like publications. The superior arrangement of facts and events mapped out stand for themselves and mirror the condition of the city at the dawn of the 20th century.

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345

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849687996

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9783849687991

The Music of What Happens

A Novel of Chicago in the 1880s

By: Charles Fanning

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The Music of What Happens

A Novel of Chicago in the 1880s

By: Charles Fanning

Irish Americans in turbulent times In The Music of What Happens, author Charles Fanning relates what it felt like to be a member of an Irish working-class community in a dynamic, expanding American city in the late nineteenth century. Irish immigrants John and Eileen O’Malley Farrell live in the Chicago South-Side neighborhood of Bridgeport with their three children: Jimmy, twelve, Mary, ten, and Margaret, five. Their family experiences turmoil and tragedy and responds with unrelenting endurance. This is the coming-of-age story of young Irish Americans, the children of immigrants, who grow up in the 1880s in Chicago. The novel evokes and re-imagines 19th century neighborhood communities from the inside. It renders challenges to those communities from tragedies both internal (failure to protect the least among them from destitution) and external (casualties in the undeclared war against British rule in Ireland and murder of a factory girl). The saving grace of art (Irish traditional music in this case) helps to heal community members affected by the tragedies.

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411

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Greenleaf Book Group

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1632998076

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9781632998071

American Literary Autographs, from Washington Irving to Henry James

By: Herbert Cahoon,Thomas V. Lange,Charles Ryskamp

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American Literary Autographs, from Washington Irving to Henry James

By: Herbert Cahoon,Thomas V. Lange,Charles Ryskamp

Hawthorne, Thoreau, Twain, Whitman, 68 other authors. Also full transcript of each, commentary; Morgan Library checklist. 136 illus.

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Courier Corporation

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0486235483

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9780486235486

An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa

By: Charles Issawi

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An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa

By: Charles Issawi

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Taylor & Francis

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0415379989

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9780415379984

Political Humor

From Aristophanes to Sam Ervin

By: Charles E. Schutz

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Political Humor

From Aristophanes to Sam Ervin

By: Charles E. Schutz

Presents and seeks to explain the variety of humor in democratic politics. The humor ranges from the bawdy political comedies of Aristophanes in ancient Athens to the journalistic satires of our daily newspapers, and includes the jokes and comic invective of the people and their politicians.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838615368

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9780838615362

The Wives of Warren

By: Charles M. Stern

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The Wives of Warren

By: Charles M. Stern

Warren is an educated, successful financial consultant, an only child spoiled by doting parents. Though not wealthy they gave him everything except status. He decides to achieve status by marrying wealth. At 29 he falls in love Roz an 18-year-old daughter of a successful CEO. Roz was enamored of his looks and suave manners. They marry against the advice of both parents. Everything is wonderful except their age difference. After marital problems the marriage is annulled. Warren at 49 decides to marry an older woman to avoid another mistake, without considering their set ways. He meets Andrianna and after a rocky courtship, prior to the marriage, the wedding is canceled. Warren wants a family. His elderly mother desperately wants a grandchild. Unable to find a woman to fulfill his requirements he decides to build his dream house Greenwich. He buys the perfect acreage and with the help of an architect designs a fabulous home, and becomes the laughing stock of the area. Imagine a bachelor building a huge house for himself. Would the perfect wife he craves, live in his castle, with its exquisite furnishings? Warren is convinced his mansion will provide the status he so desires. Warren is attracted to barking dogs in a house that has a dog kennel. He is fond of dogs and asks a neighbor about the kennel's owners. Warren thinks a dog would be the finishing touch his home and decides to visit the kennel. He discovers an unexpected situation that changes his life. The Wives of Warren is an exciting reading experience that may make your dream a reality.

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iUniverse

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1469781980

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9781469781983

Chaplin and American Culture

The Evolution of a Star Image

By: Charles J. Maland

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Chaplin and American Culture

The Evolution of a Star Image

By: Charles J. Maland

Charles Maland focuses on the cultural sources of the on-and-off, love-hate affair between Chaplin and the American public that was perhaps the stormiest in American stardom.

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Princeton University Press

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0691223882

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9780691223889

Redistricting

The Most Political Activity in America

By: Charles S. Bullock III

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Redistricting

The Most Political Activity in America

By: Charles S. Bullock III

This book will prepare readers for the redistricting of congressional, state legislative, and local collegial bodies that will follow the 2010 Census. Almost every state legislature will devote extensive time to redrawing its own districts along with the state's congressional districts during 2011-2012. Chapters 2 through 5 cover the major factors involved in drawing the new maps. These are arranged in the order of their legal prominence beginning with the need for equal populations before moving to the obligation to avoid discriminating against minorities. Chapter 4 examines the other elements weighed by those redrawing districts: compactness, respect for political boundaries and communities of interest. Chapter 5 deals with partisan considerations and consequences of redistricting. More than any other state, Georgia has probably been the locale for more precedent-setting cases and had more difficulty securing Department of Justice approval of its districting plans. Chapter 6 uses Georgia as a case study to demonstrate the application of a number of concepts discussed in the preceding four chapters. The seventh chapter provides a preview of the post-2010 redistricting with a discussion of projections of likely congressional reapportionment. The final chapter also considers how the changes in the Voting Rights Act adopted in 2006 may affect the next round of redistricting.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1442203552

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9781442203556

Oreos and Dubonnet

Remembering Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller

By: Joseph H. Boyd Jr.,Charles R. Holcomb

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Oreos and Dubonnet

Remembering Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller

By: Joseph H. Boyd Jr.,Charles R. Holcomb

A unique figure and an outsized personality, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was a man whose character, personal style, and (of course) wealth shaped both his goals and how he pursued them. Although many stories about Rockefeller have been published over the years, many more remain to be told, and in Oreos and Dubonnet, Rockefeller's former advance man and personal assistant Joseph H. Boyd Jr. and former political reporter Charles R. Holcomb bring together scores of behind-the-scenes anecdotes, accounts, and observations from a wide variety of people who worked with and for Rockefeller in various circumstances. Some of them (and even the title itself, which refers to the two things that Rockefeller asked to have in his hotel room at every campaign stop) add amusing or telling detail to the mosaic of this complex and creative man. Others illustrate the personal approaches or techniques he relied on to persuade, cajole, or otherwise get his way in the rough-and-tumble world of gubernatorial and presidential politics. And all of them add to our understanding of one of New York's most lively and influential governors.

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State University of New York Press

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1438441851

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9781438441856

Principles of Conflict Economics

The Political Economy of War, Terrorism, Genocide, and Peace

By: Charles H. Anderton,John R. Carter

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Principles of Conflict Economics

The Political Economy of War, Terrorism, Genocide, and Peace

By: Charles H. Anderton,John R. Carter

Provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the key themes and principles of conflict economics.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107184207

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9781107184206

Book's by Charles Dunne

Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley

Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley

The Irish Voice in America

The Irish Voice in America

The Secret War in El Paso

The Secret War in El Paso

The Texas Rangers in Transition

The Texas Rangers in Transition

A Centennial history of the city of Chicago – Its men and institutions

A Centennial history of the city of Chicago – Its men and institutions

The Music of What Happens

The Music of What Happens

American Literary Autographs, from Washington Irving to Henry James

American Literary Autographs, from Washington Irving to Henry James

An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa

An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa

Political Humor

Political Humor

The Wives of Warren

The Wives of Warren

Chaplin and American Culture

Chaplin and American Culture

Redistricting

Redistricting

Oreos and Dubonnet

Oreos and Dubonnet

Principles of Conflict Economics

Principles of Conflict Economics

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