P. J. O'Rourke, Author Vintage Books USA $13 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-73789-6
Conservative O'Rourke takes no prisoners in this deadly accurate number-one bestseller, which spent 28 weeks on PW 's hardcover list. O'Rourke's latest essay collection, Give War a Chance , will be published by Atlantic Monthly Press in May. Author...
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P.J. O’Rourke. Atlantic Monthly, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2619-1
For those interested in one more look at the unusual road leading to the unlikely outcome of the unforgettable 2016 U.S. presidential election, humorist O’Rourke delivers a wry, dry, and occasionally laugh-out-loud take. O’Rourke’s chapter headings...
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P.J. O'Rourke. Atlantic Monthly, $30 (864p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2366-4
Too much of even a good thing can be tiring, as this overstuffed retrospective from the talented humorist O'Rourke (The Baby Boom) demonstrates. Surely, at some point during the compiling of this massive collection, someone must have suggested...
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P.J. O’Rourke. Atlantic Monthly, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2197-4
Prolific political and social commentator O’Rourke, author of 17 books, including the bestselling Parliament of Whores, has created here a thoughtful portrait of the baby boomer generation and what its members have done for the American way of life,
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P.J. O'Rourke. Atlantic Monthly, $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1985-8
In this cheeky follow-up to Holidays in Hell, former war correspondent O'Rourke trades battle zones for more appealing travel destinations, often with his family in tow. Deciding after the Iraq War that he was "too old to be scared stiff and too...
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P. J. O'Rourke, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87113-609-1
Since most of O'Rourke's (All the Trouble in the World) books are collections, this retrospective is not so much a greatest-hits album as a variably entertaining grab bag of B-sides and other miscellany. There is giddy juvenilia he wrote for the...
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P. J. O'Rourke, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $9.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-87113-145-4
The humorous essays in O'Rourke's first collection originally appeared in publications ranging from Harper's, House and Garden and the Wall Street Journal to National Lampoon. Certainly the title will not appeal to most liberals, and selections like
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P. J. O'Rourke, Author Vintage Books USA $13 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-74201-2
Political humorist O'Rourke is even more clever abroad than on the home front, as these sparkling dispatches reveal. A 12-week PW bestseller in cloth. (May)
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P. J. O'Rourke, Author . Atlantic Monthly $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-87113-825-5
Not content to rest on his laurels, the bestselling humorist O'Rourke (All the Trouble in the World, etc.) instead settles back on his caustic couch to offer a wide-angled worldview from his own living room, his salon of sarcasm. He introduces...
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P.J. O'Rourke, Atlantic Monthly, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1960-5
O'Rourke (On the Wealth of Nations) continues his libertarian attack of current politics. The author, an early editor at National Lampoon, takes on weighty topics like the Bill of Rights, climate change, health care reform, government bailouts, and...
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P. J. O'Rourke, Author Publishers Group West $24 (246p) ISBN 978-0-87113-719-7
Having chewed up and spat out the politically correct (All the Troubles in the World) and the U.S. government (Parliament of Whores), O'Rourke takes a more global tack. Here, he combines something of Michael Palin's Pole to Pole, a soup on of Swift's
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P. J. O'Rourke, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $19.95 (233p) ISBN 978-0-87113-455-4
As a conservative, political humorist O'Rourke ( Holidays in Hell ) can get on liberals' nerves with his mindless characterization of environmentalists as ``tree huggers'' or his mockery of Jesse Jackson's ``daft notions.'' Then again, any satirist...
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P. J. O'Rourke, Author Atlantic Monthly $24 (258p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1883-7
Humorist O’Rourke shifts gears, covering and combining past pieces on cars (for Automobile
, Car and Driver
, Esquire
and Forbes
) with new material to set this auto anthology in motion. Much has been reworked “because the writing—
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P. J. O'Rourke, Author . Atlantic Monthly $19.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-87113-949-8
The famous satirist headlines a new series of Books That Changed the World," in which well-known authors read great books "so you don't have to." While irreverently dissecting Adam Smith's 18th-century antimercantilist classic,...
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P. J. O'Rourke, Author . Atlantic Monthly $23 (197p) ISBN 978-0-87113-919-1
O'Rourke has made a career out of telling people off. As a foreign correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly
and Rolling Stone,
he has demonstrated a flair for sarcasm and an aptitude for making people laugh. In his 11th book, however, this...
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P. J. O'Rourke, Author, P. J. C'Rourke, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $22 (340p) ISBN 978-0-87113-580-3
Political humorist O'Rourke (Give War a Chance) takes a swipe at ``fashionable worries,'' reminding us that ``This is a moment of hope in history''-no more evil empire to threaten us. His contention that this is ``the best moment of all time'' and...
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P. J. O'Rourke, Author, P. J. O'Rourke, Read by Random House Audio Publishing Group $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-375-40482-5
Having chewed up and spat out the politically correct (All the Troubles in the World) and the U.S. government (Parliament of Whores), O'Rourke takes a more global tack. Here, he combines something of Michael Palin's Pole to Pole, a soup on of Swift's
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