P. J O'Rourke
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Description
With All the Trouble in the World, P. J. O'Rourke once again landed on best-seller lists around the country, confirming his reputation as the pre-eminent political humorist of our time. Attacking fashionable worries-all those terrible problems that are constantly on our minds and in the news, but about which most of us have no real clue-P. J. crisscrosses the globe in search of solutions to today's most vexing issues, including overpopulation, famine,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"When The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations was published in 1987, P. J. O'Rourke had more entries than any living writer. And he kept writing funny stuff for another thirty-five years. Now, for the first time, P.J.'s best quips and riffs have been collected in one volume, edited by his longtime friend and award-winning magazine editor Terry McDonell. The Funny Stuff is organized by subject in alphabetical order from Agriculture to...
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Pub. Date
2011.
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P. J. O'Rourke is one of his generation's most celebrated political humorists, hailed as "the funniest writer in America" by both Time and The Wall Street Journal. Twenty-three years ago he published the classic travelogue Holidays in Hell, in which he trotted the globe as a "trouble tourist," a chaos rubberneck, sight-seeing at wars, rebellions, riots, political crises, and other monuments of human folly. After the Iraq War - "too old to keep being...
9) Eat the rich
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
The political satirist traverses the world, exploring the power of money, ruminating on the world's varieties of capitalism and socialism, and offering his own primer on economics
10) Peace kills
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
The humorist offers a survey of the foibles of American foreign policy, recounting his experiences among consumers in Kuwait, in security-obsessed airports around the globe, and in Kosovo