"Tired of making bad jokes" and believing that "the world outside seemed a much worse joke than anything I could conjure", P. J. O'Rourke traversed the globe on a fun-finding mission, investigating the way of life in the most desperate places on the planet, including Warsaw, Managua, and Belfast. Th[...]
P. J. O'Rourke's savagely funny and national best-seller Parliament of Whores has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American political system. Originally written at the end of the Reagan era, this new edition includes an extensive foreword by the renowned political writer Andrew [...]
Over twenty years ago, P.J. O'Rourke published "Holidays in Hell," the classic travelogue that found him searching for excitement in places like Warsaw, Managua, and Belfast. In "Holidays in Heck," the man dubbed "the funniest writer in America" by "Time" and "The Wall Street Journal" steps into the[...]
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The author of Give War a Chance offers a hilarious guide to domestic life, covering the arts of cooking, cleaning, and housekeeping for people who do not know how to do any of these things and who refuse to learn. Original.[...]
First published in 1776, Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" was instantly recognized as the fundamental work of economics. In this hilarious and insightful examination of Smith and his groundbreaking work, OURourke shows why Smith is still relevant, why what seems obvious now was once revolutionar[...]
Put the country's big, fat political ass on a diet. Lose that drooping deficit. Slim those spreading entitlement programs. Firm up that flabby pair of butt cheeks which are the Senate and the House. Having had a lot of fun with what politicians do, P.J. O'Rourke now has a lot of fun with what we sho[...]
A resource guide to etiquette for the 1990s touches upon everything, from which books to read in bed--in case you die in your sleep--to how to achieve distinction by being outrageous and bizarre[...]
Holidays in Hell follows P. J. O?Rourke on a global fun-finding mission to the most desperate places on the planet, from the bombed-out streets of Beirut to the stultifying blandness of Heritage USA. P.J.'s unforgettable adventures abroad include storming student protesters? barricades in South Kore[...]
Growing up as the son of a car dealer in Ohio, the author has always been crazy about cars. This title revels his love for vehicular things.[...]
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.[...]