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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. 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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- 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.
Browse the list of books by P. J. O'Rourke, a political satirist, journalist, and author who wrote about politics, cars, etiquette, and more. Learn about his life, career, and works, such as Parliament of Whores, Give War a Chance, and How the Hell Did This Happen?
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Most popular. Editor's Pick. The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way, And It Wasn't My Fault, And I'll ... 515. Kindle Edition. $999$14.99. Top P. J. O'Rourke titles. Page 1 of 4. Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader. 271. Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attemp… 603. A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided L… 643.
Nov 22, 2016 · P. J. O'Rourke has written sixteen 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 bestseller list.
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Oct 17, 2012 · Politics & Society. The Best Political Satire Books. recommended by P. J. O’Rourke. Satire is humour used for a moral purpose, explains American political satirist P.J. O’Rourke—though it doesn't have to be particularly funny and can be quite dark.
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