A collection spanning thirty years, chronicling famed humorist and gearhead P. J. O'Rourke's love affair with the automobile from mid-twentieth century to now from heyday to sickbay.
Written by an American humorist, this global economics primer examines the effectiveness of the economic models employed by the United States, Albania, Sweden, Cuba, Russia, Tanzania, and Hong Kong. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
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--the bestselling author of Parliament of Whores crisscrosses the globe in search of answers to today's most vexing dilemmas, and, in the process, ensures that political correctness will never be ...
A rule book for living in a world without rules, Modern Manners is an irreverent guide to anti-etiquette for the '90s and beyond. Pointed advice covers a range of topics from sex to death to reading habits. Also included are the most up-to-date forms of vulgarity and churlishness, as well as the latest fashion in discourtesy and barbarous display.
In 1988, P.J. O'Rourke moved to Washington to examine the US government and to look at what politicians do and why it costs so much. The author argues that governments make everything complicated, obscure and tedious to confuse members of the general public in what he describes as a "dictatorship of boredom". In this book he examines and explains ...
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 revolutionary.
"National Lampoons High School Yearbook: " First released in 1974 and a two-million-plus bestseller, National Lampoon's 1964 High School Yearbook is the premier property of the most recognized brand in comedy and the perfect introduction to Rugged Land's new National Lampoon Books imprint. Brief Description: Welcome back, graduates of the ...
This collection of essays by right-wing humorist O'Rourke includes, as usual, plenty of eyebrow-raising political pontifications (for both Democrats and Republicans), but focuses more on the everyday turmoil in the home.
The bestselling humorist and structuralist philosopher provides the definitive text on domesticity for anyone--from bachelors to divorce victims to old people forced by their uncaring relatives to live in the confines of golden-age communities--who finds himself a stranger in a home he never made. Complete with information, advice, and tidbits ...
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 Gulf War. Beginning with a concise history of the Middle East, he delivers an day-to-day chronicle of the tedium ...
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 revolutionary.
O'Rourke casts his ever-shrewd and mordant eye on America's latest adventures in warfare. He is both incisive reporter and absurdist, relevant and irreverent, with a clear eye for everyone's confusion, including his own. O'Rourke understands that peace is sometimes one of the most troubling aspects of war.
With an emphasis on substantive law, this extensively revised casebook provides comprehensive coverage of major white-collar crime statutes in the federal criminal code, securities laws, and environmental statutes, as well as sentencing principles under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. "Corporate and White Collar Crime: Cases and Materials, ...
Out of print since 1979, and a highly sought after collectible, "The 1964 High School Yearbook" was the inspiration behind National Lampoon's "Animal House."
O'Rourke travels to hellholes around the globe--from war-torn Lebanon to Korea to Poland to El Salvador--looking for trouble, the truth, and good times. "A spin with P.J. O'Rourke is like a ride in the back of an old pickup over unpaved roads. You get where you're going fast, with exhilarating views--but not without a few bruises".--"The New York ...
Culled from magazines, novels, short story collections, and books of poetry, in celebration of the 100th year of the American car industry, this anthology revisits the writings of our most literate, and most hilarious, car enthusiasts, including Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, Hunter S. Thompson, Calvin Trillin, Jim Harrison, Denise McCluggage, ...
By the author of "All the Trouble in the World." This is a volume of previously uncollected pieces by P.J. O'Rourke, spanning his 25 years in journalism. The work ranges from 1970, when he wrote for the "Underground" and "National Lampoon", to his 1996 position on "Rolling Stone" magazine.
O'Rourke travels to hellholes around the globe--from war-torn Lebanon to Korea to Poland to El Salvador--looking for trouble, the truth, and good times. "A spin with P.J. O'Rourke is like a ride in the back of an old pickup over unpaved roads. You get where you're going fast, with exhilarating views--but not without a few bruises".--New York Times ...
Begun as articles in the "American Spectator", this book grew into an all-encompassing guide to all the things and people in the 1990s that P. J. O'Rourke dislikes.
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 ...
Confessions, Adventures, Essays, And (other) Outrages of P. J. O'rourke, this is the first collection of wildly humorous essays from the former editor-in-chief of National Lampoon.
This title presents essays by the conservative political humorist, from his days as a member of the counter culture in the 1970s to an essay on the Republican control of Congress published in the "American Spectator" in 1995.
The political humourist turns his attention to fashionable worries, death and the end of the world. Opening with "One Week of Worrying", he then takes each worry and examines it. He questions overpopulation, famine, the environment and "Helpless Victims: If Meat is Murder, are Eggs Rape?"
"Highly amusing and also strangely informative ...The ultimate effect of his book is tonic." -The New York Times "What makes this book so good is that Rothchild can explain things like naked puts ...and leave the reader both edified and laughing...Witty, fast-paced, and educational." -The Washington Post. "You'll relish John Rothchild's comic tale ...
Confessions, Adventures, Essays, And (other) Outrages of P. J. O'rourke, this is the first collection of wildly humorous essays from the former editor-in-chief of National Lampoon.
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