The author of Holidays in Hell aims his barbed commentary at the American poltical system, discussing absurdly high farm susbsidies, American foreign policy, and more. Reprint. 150,000 first printing. NYT.

Holidays in Hell

P.J. O'ROURKE

Literature & Fiction

Pan Books, Ltd.

The bestselling author of Parliament of Whores now dismantles victims ranging from backpack liberals to Lee Iacocca and surveys the collapse of communism, celebrity, and liberalism. "Whatever your political persuasion, you would have to be totally humorless not to feel like chuckling when he (O'Rourke) starts hacking away".--New York Times Book Review.

Give War A Chance - Eyewitness Accounts Of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice And Alcohol-free Beer

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Atlantic Monthly Press

Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice and Alcohol-free Beer

Give War a Chance : Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice and Alcohol-Free Beer

History

World

Picador

Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire Us Government

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice and Alcohol-Free Beer

Opening with an introduction entitled 'Hunting the Virtuous -- and How to Clean and Skin Them', the author provides his own comments on the people, places and events behind the newspaper headlines, before launching into an account of the first Gulf War. Beginning with a concise history of the Middle East, he delivers a day-to-day chronicle of the tedium of waiting for war in the Saudi desert, signing off with an eyewitness account of the victory march into Kuwait city.

Asia

Age And Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, And A Bad Haircut

Age and Guile: Beat Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut

All Troubles In World (A Format)

Pan/Macmillan

Readers may be shocked to discover that America's most provocative (and conservative) satirist, P. J. O'Rourke, was at one time a raving pinko, with scars on his formerly bleeding heart to prove it. In Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut, O'Rourke chronicles the remarkable trajectory that took him from the lighthearted fun of the revolutionary barricades to the serious business of the nineteenth hole. How did the O'Rourke of 1970, who summarized the world of "grown-ups" as "materialism, sexual hang-ups, the Republican party, uncomfortable clothes, engagement rings, car accidents, Pat Boone, competition, patriotism, cheating, lying, ranch houses, and TV" come to be in favor of all of those things? What causes a beatnik-hippie type, comfortable sleeping on dirty mattresses in pot-addled communes - as P. J. did when he was a writer for assorted "underground" papers-to metamorphosize into a right-wing middle-aged grouch? Here, P. J. shows how his Socialist idealism and avant-garde aesthetic tendencies were cured and how he acquired a healthy and commendable interest in national defense, the balanced budget, Porsches, and Cohiba cigars. P. J. O'Rourke's message is that there's hope for all those suffering from acute Bohemianism, or as he puts it, "Pull your pants up, turn your hat around, and get a job." "From the fictionalized accounts of his career as a hard-drinking hippie to the Benchley-in-the-age-of-macho lampoon of fly fishing, Mr. O'Rourke shows an incorrigible comic gift and an eye for detail that keeps the wild stuff grounded." - The New York Times Book Review

Age and Guile Beat Youth,Innocence,and a Bad Haircut; 1970-1995: 25 Years of P. J. O'Rouke

Eat the Rich

Business & Money

Economics

Eat the Rich: a Treatise on Economics

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