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A Cry From The Far Middle by P. J. O'Rourke
Category: History
P.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry is what America has always been all about. This uproarious look at the current state of the United States includes essays like 'The New Puritanism - and Welcome to It,' about ...Show more
A Cry from the Far Middle - Dispatches from a Divided Land by P. J. O'Rourke
Category: History
Observations on the present political moment, and the discord that defines it, from the best man for the job: bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P.J. O'Rourke P. J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry are wha ...Show more
Baby Boom: How it Got That Way...and it Wasn't My Fault...and I'll Never Do it Again by P. J. O'Rourke
Category: Politics
"The Baby Boom - over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said with a straight face, 'We are the world.' What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? Ask the generation responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall and their knickers. ...Show more
DON'T VOTE - It Just Encourages the Bastards by P.J. O'Rourke
Category: Politics and Current Affairs
Best-selling humorist P.J. O'Rourke is back with his latest political masterpiece, DON'T VOTE - It Just Encourages the Bastards. Using his signature wit and keen observational skills, O'Rourke reflects on his forty year career as a political commentator, spanning his addled hippie youth to his current s ...Show more
DON'T VOTE: It Just Encourages the Bastards by P.J. O'Rourke
Category: History
In his new book, "DON'T VOTE - It Just Encourages the Bastards", best-selling political humorist P.J. O'Rourke writes the mirthful political theory companion to his classic political science book, Parliament of Whores. Best-selling humorist P.J. O'Rourke is back with his latest political masterpiece, "D ...Show more
Driving Like Crazy : Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-bending by P.J. O'Rourke
Category: Planes Trains Automobiles
Jump in and buckle-up. P.J. O'Rourke delivers his rapid-fire wit from the driver's seat of Buicks, Land Rovers, Harley-Davidsons and at least one Soviet army surplus truck. "Driving Like Crazy" is a hilarious collection of fender-bending pieces that career along at O'Rourke's full-throttle, breakneck Go ...Show more
Eat the Rich by P.J. O'Rourke
Category: Business, Economics and Law
America's favorite political humorist leads readers on a hysterical whirlwind tour, from the "good capitalism" of Wall Street to the "bad socialism" of Cuba, in search of an answer to the age-old question: "Why do some places prosper and thrive, while others just suck?"
Holidays in Heck by P. J. O'Rourke
Category: Travel
Holidays in Heck takes the reader on a globe-trotting journey to far-reaching places including China, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and the Galapagos Islands. The collection begins after the Iraq War, when P.J. retired from being a war correspondent because he was "too old to keep being scared stiff and too s ...Show more
Holidays in Heck by P.J. O'Rourke
Category: Travel
The long-awaited follow up to the classic Holidays in Hell, P.J. O'Rourke's Holidays in Heck is the middle-aged version of his classic travel pieces, featuring journeys to China, Venice, the UK and beyond. Holidays in Heck takes the reader on a globe-trotting journey to far-reaching places including Chi ...Show more
How the Hell Did This Happen?: A Cautionary Tale of American Democracy by P.J. O'Rourke
Category: Politics
This election cycle was so absurd that celebrated political satirist, journalist, and die-hard Republican P. J. O'Rourke endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. How the Hell Did This Happen? is his essential take on the stranger-than-fiction (and stranger-than-fact) 2016 presidential election and ...Show more