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Refresh and try again. * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more books, click here . P.J. O'Rourke has 114 books on Goodreads with 54746 ratings. P.J. O'Rourke’s most popular book is Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travel...
- Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism
Patrick Jake "P. J." O'Rourke is an American political...
- National Lampoon The 199th Birthday Book
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- Holidays in Heck
Patrick Jake "P. J." O'Rourke is an American political...
- Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism
- 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'.
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P. J. O’Rourke (1947–2022) was an author, journalist, and political satirist who wrote twenty-two books on subjects as diverse as politics and cars and etiquette and economics. Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance both reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. After beginning his career writing for the National Lampoon, O ...
P. J. O'Rourke. 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. Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance both reached No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list .
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- Patrick Jake O'Rourke, November 14, 1947, Toledo, Ohio, U.S.
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Feb 15, 2022 · Patrick Jake "P. J." O'Rourke is an American political satirist, journalist, writer, and author. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait...
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 ...