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Patrick Jake O'Rourke (November 14, 1947 – February 15, 2022) was an American author, journalist, and political satirist who wrote twenty-two books on subjects as diverse as politics, cars, etiquette, and economics.
- Holidays in Hell. From 1985-2000 P.J. O'Rourke was Rolling Stone's foreign affairs desk chief and travelled around the world reporting on crises.
- Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics. You can read an economics textbook, or you can read P.J. O'Rourke's Eat the Rich, a very funny take on the perennial question economists ask: why are some countries so rich and others so poor?
- Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government. P.J. O'Rourke's introduction to how America's political system's machinery works, written after going to report on the 1988 US presidential race for six months (though his stay in Washington ended up stretching to two years).
- Give War a Chance. Reporting on the 1991 Gulf War for Rolling Stone and the fall of the Soviet Union gave P.J. O'Rourke the chance to write a book about 'evil'.
- Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny about This?" by P.J. O'Rourke.
- Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government by P.J. O'Rourke.
- Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics by P.J. O'Rourke.
- All the Trouble in the World by P.J. O'Rourke.
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He’s written 16 books on subjects as diverse as politics and cars and etiquette and economics. His book about Washington, Parliament of Whores, and his book about international conflict and crisis, Give War a Chance, both reached #1 on the New York Times best-seller list.
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Nov 22, 2016 · For the first time, Thrown Under the Omnibus brings together his funniest, most outrageous, most controversial, and most loved pieces in the definitive P.J. reader. Selected and introduced by the humorist himself, Thrown Under the Omnibus is the essential P. J. O'Rourke anthology—a must-have for any fan. Read more.
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