<div>An &ldquo;extremely funny&rdquo; take on the decline of civility, from the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of How the Hell Did This Happen? (The Plain Dealer). In Modern Manners, cultural guru P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke provides the essential accessory for the truly contemporary man or woman&mdash;a rulebook for living in a world without rules. Traditionally, good manners were a means of becoming as bland and invisible as everyone else, thus avoiding calling attention to one&rsquo;s own awkwardness and stupidity. Today, with everyone wanting to appear special, stupidity is at a premium, and manners&mdash;as outrageous and bizarre as possible&mdash;are a wonderful way to distinguish ourselves, or at least have a fine time trying. This irreverent and hilarious guide to anti-etiquette offers pointed advice on topics from sex and entertaining to reading habits and death. With the most up-to-date forms of vulgarity, churlishness, and presumption, the latest fashions in discourtesy and barbarous display, O&rsquo;Rourke is our guide to the art of incivility. &ldquo;Modern Manners is O&rsquo;Rourke doing what he has always done: making hilarious, insightful, often vicious fun of the world and all its inhabitants.&rdquo; &mdash;People &ldquo;A reader who rushes through [Modern Manners] from cover to cover&mdash;like I did&mdash;will feel like a child who has gorged on chocolate cake: happy, but a bit disappointed that it&rsquo;s all gone. The reason O&rsquo;Rourke&rsquo;s book is so successful, however, is not just his great sense of humor. O&rsquo;Rourke&rsquo;s writing has a cutting edge behind it, which makes a reader&rsquo;s laughter just a bit thought-provoking, and just a bit rueful . . . Very funny.&rdquo; &mdash;Chicago Tribune</div>

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Modern Manners

<div>Experience a year in the life of a cranky couch potato&mdash;also known as &ldquo;the funniest writer in America&rdquo; (The Wall Street Journal). Touching on topics from technological change to the United Nations, this is a chronicle of the day-to-day home life and frequent harangues of a New York Times&ndash;bestselling humorist. Over the course of the year, in between rants, he does occasionally leave the sofa and embark on exotic adventures&mdash;including a blind (drunk) wine tasting with Christopher Buckley, and a Motel 6 where he has twenty-eight channels and a bathroom to himself. As readers of Parliament of Whores, Give War a Chance, and his other bestsellers know, P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke takes no prisoners&mdash;though he may take a few naps. &ldquo;An entertaining and engaging read.&rdquo; &mdash;Associated Press &ldquo;A wide-angled worldview from his own living room, his salon of sarcasm. He introduces readers to his assistant, friends, family and smart-aleck babysitter . . . His vitriolic wit is couched in humor that elicits the gamut from giggles to guffaws.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

The CEO of the Sofa

<div>The #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling political humorist reads Adam Smith&rsquo;s classic economic treatise&mdash;so you don&rsquo;t have to. Recognized almost instantly on its publication in 1776 as the fundamental work of economics, The Wealth of Nations was also recognized as really long. The original edition totaled over nine hundred pages in two volumes&mdash;including the blockbuster sixty-seven-page &ldquo;Digression concerning the Variations in the Value of Silver during the Course of the Four last Centuries,&rdquo; which, to those uninterested in the historiography of currency supply, is like reading Modern Maturity in Urdu. Although daunting, Adam Smith&rsquo;s tome is still essential to understanding such current hot topics as outsourcing, trade imbalances, and Angelina Jolie. In this witty, approachable, and insightful examination of Smith and his groundbreaking work, P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke puts his trademark wit to good use, and shows us why Smith is still relevant, why what seems obvious now was once revolutionary, and why the pursuit of self-interest is so important. &ldquo;If there is anyone on the planet who can make Adam Smith as entertaining and informative as he was prophetic, it&rsquo;s P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke.&rdquo; &mdash;The Weekly Standard &ldquo;Hilarious . . . Learning history while better understanding the current economy&mdash;and laughing while doing it? Hard to ask for more.&rdquo; &mdash;Rocky Mountain News</div>

On the Wealth of Nations

<div>Whatever happened to good old-fashioned red-baiting? The #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling humorist rails against the silly people in our midst . . . In the midst of the Clinton years, political satirist P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke, in conjunction with the conservative magazine The American Spectator, launched into a gleeful project: carrying on the grand tradition of McCarthyism by compiling a New Enemies List. Their goal: to reveal the utter silliness of politicians, celebrities, and &ldquo;everyone to the left of Edmund Burke&rdquo; (Booklist). From Noam Chomsky to Yoko Ono to all the people who think quartz crystals cure herpes, this list is the result&mdash;and the book also include O&rsquo;Rourke&rsquo;s treatises on why Jimmy Carter was a better president than Bill Clinton, and why the author of Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance is a conservative in the first place.</div>

The American Spectator's Enemies List

<div>From &ldquo;the funniest writer in America,&rdquo; a book about cooking and cleaning for people who don&rsquo;t know how to do those things and aren&rsquo;t about to learn (The Wall Street Journal). In addition to debunking popular myths about bachelors (they are in fact not creatures known to hang around the house in silk smoking jackets, sipping brandy from oversized snifters), #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke offers some useful advice about housekeeping&mdash;or how best to avoid it&mdash;in this priceless guide. For example: &ldquo;Every month or so, take the curtains down&mdash;and throw them away.&rdquo; In the inimitable and irreverent style that has made him one of America&rsquo;s most popular humorists, O&rsquo;Rourke provides an essential guide to the practical business of living in the modern world and proves that &ldquo;Camus had it all wrong about the myth of Sisyphus&mdash;it&rsquo;s not symbolic of life, just housekeeping.&rdquo; &ldquo;To say that P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke is funny is like saying that the Rocky Mountains are scenic&mdash;accurate but insufficient.&rdquo; &mdash;Chicago Tribune</div>

The Bachelor Home Companion

<div>The #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling humorist&rsquo;s tribute to car travel is &ldquo;a ride worth taking, even for readers who don&rsquo;t know an oil pan from a frying pan&rdquo; (The Washington Times). From a veteran of both Car and Driver and National Lampoon magazines, this hilarious book chronicles the golden age of the automobile in America&mdash;and takes us on a whirlwind tour of the world&rsquo;s most scenic and bumpiest roads in trouble-laden cross-country treks, from a 1978 Florida-to-California escapade in a 1956 special four-door Buick sedan, to a thousand-mile effort across Mexico in the Baja 1000 in 1983, to a journey through Kyrgyzstan in 2006 on the back of a Soviet army surplus six-wheel-drive truck. For longtime fans of the celebrated humorist, the collection features a host of O&rsquo;Rourke&rsquo;s classic pieces on driving, including &ldquo;How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink,&rdquo; about the potential misdeeds one might perform in the front (and back) seat of an automobile; &ldquo;The Rolling Organ Donors Motorcycle Club,&rdquo; which chronicles a seven-hundred-mile weekend trip through Michigan and Indiana that O&rsquo;Rourke took on a Harley-Davidson; his brilliant and funny piece from Rolling Stone on NASCAR and its peculiar culture recorded during an alcohol-fueled weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1977; and an hilarious account of a ride from Islamabad to Calcutta in Land Rover&rsquo;s new Discovery Trek. &ldquo;Never in neutral, O&rsquo;Rourke offers laughter on wheels.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;An insightful look not just at the American love affair with cars, but also at one man&rsquo;s changing outlook on life, all of it fast-paced and over the top . . . Even readers who know nothing about cars and motorcycles will appreciate the joy and hilarity of this book.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist</div>

Driving Like Crazy

<div>A &ldquo;hair-raisingly hilarious&rdquo; journey through danger zones from Belfast to Gaza, by the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author (Vanity Fair). &ldquo;Tired of making bad jokes&rdquo; and believing that &ldquo;the world outside seemed a much worse joke than anything I could conjure,&rdquo; journalist and political satirist P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke decided to traverse the globe on a fun-finding mission, investigating the way of life in the most desperate places on the planet, including Warsaw, Managua, and Belfast. The result is Holidays in Hell&mdash;a full-tilt, no-holds-barred romp through politics, culture, and ideology. The author&rsquo;s adventures include storming student protesters&rsquo; barricades with riot police in South Korea, interviewing communist insurrectionists in the Philippines, and going undercover dressed in Arab garb in the Gaza Strip. He also takes a look at America&rsquo;s homegrown horrors as he braves the media frenzy surrounding the Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Washington DC, uncovers the mortifying banality behind the white-bread kitsch of Jerry Falwell&rsquo;s Heritage USA, and survives the stultifying boredom of Harvard&rsquo;s 350th anniversary celebration. Packed with classic riffs on everything from Polish nightlife under communism to Third World driving tips, Holidays in Hell is one of the best-loved books by &ldquo;one of America&rsquo;s most hilarious writers&rdquo; (Time). &ldquo;Wickedly amusing.&rdquo; &mdash;The Baltimore Sun &ldquo;Funny, outrageous, perceptive.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post Book World</div>

Holidays in Hell

<div>A New York Times bestseller: &ldquo;The funniest writer in America&rdquo; takes on the global economy (The Wall Street Journal). In this book, renowned political humorist P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke, author of Parliament of Whores and How the Hell Did This Happen? leads us on a hysterical whirlwind world tour from the &ldquo;good capitalism&rdquo; of Wall Street to the &ldquo;bad socialism&rdquo; of Cuba in search of the answer to an age-old question: &ldquo;Why do some places prosper and thrive, while others just suck?&rdquo; With stops in Albania, Sweden, Hong Kong, Moscow, and Tanzania, O&rsquo;Rourke takes a look at the complexities of economics with a big dose of the incomparable wit that has made him one of today&rsquo;s most refreshing commentators. &ldquo;O&rsquo;Rourke has done the unthinkable: he&rsquo;s made money funny.&rdquo; &mdash;Forbes FYI &ldquo;[O&rsquo;Rourke is] witty, smart and&mdash;though he hides it under a tough coat of cynicism&mdash;a fine reporter . . . Delightful.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review</div>

Eat the Rich

<div>The #1 New York Times bestseller from &ldquo;one of America&rsquo;s most hilarious and provocative writers . . . a volatile brew of one-liners and vitriol&rdquo; (Time). Renowned for his cranky conservative humor, P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke runs hilariously amok in this book, tackling the death of communism; his frustration with sanctimonious liberals; and Saddam Hussein in a series of classic dispatches from his coverage of the 1991 Gulf War. On Kuwait City after the war, he comments, &ldquo;It looked like all the worst rock bands in the world had stayed there at the same time.&rdquo; On Saddam Hussein, O&rsquo;Rourke muses: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got chemical weapons filled with . . . with . . . chemicals. Maybe he&rsquo;s got The Bomb. And missiles that can reach Riyadh, Tel Aviv, Spokane. Stock up on nonperishable foodstuffs. Grab those Diet Coke cans you were supposed to take to the recycling center and fill them with home heating oil. Bury the Hummel figurines in the yard. We&rsquo;re all going to die. Details at eleven.&rdquo; And on the plague of celebrity culture, he notes: &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.&rdquo; Mordant and utterly irreverent, this is a modern classic from one of our great political satirists, described by Christopher Buckley as being &ldquo;like S. J. Perelman on acid.&rdquo; &ldquo;Mocking on the surface but serious beneath . . . When it comes to scouting the world for world-class absurdities, O&rsquo;Rourke is the right man for the job.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times Book Review &ldquo;The funniest writer in America.&rdquo; &mdash;The Wall Street Journal</div>

Give War a Chance

<div>Writings from the old-school Republican and New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of How the Hell Did This Happen?: &ldquo;Hilarious&rdquo; (Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking). In this collection of pieces, the outrageous political satirist renowned for such classics as Parliament of Whores takes on a wide range of cultural and political issues, and explains the platform of the Republican Party Reptile: &ldquo;I think our agenda is clear. We are opposed to: government spending, Kennedy kids, seat-belt laws . . . busing our children anywhere other than Yale, trailer courts near our vacation homes . . . all tiny Third World countries that don&rsquo;t have banking secrecy laws, aerobics, the UN, taxation without tax loopholes, and jewelry on men. We are in favor of: guns, drugs, fast cars, free love (if our wives don&rsquo;t find out), a sound dollar . . . and a strong military with spiffy uniforms. There are thousands of people in America who feel this way, especially after three or four drinks. If all of us would unite and work together, we could give this country . . . well, a real bad hangover.&rdquo; &ldquo;To say that P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke is funny is like saying the Rocky Mountains are scenic&mdash;accurate but insufficient. At his best he&rsquo;s downright exhilarating . . . Republican Party Reptile is as rambunctiously entertaining as a greased pig catching contest. If you can find a funnier writer than P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke, buy him a brandy, but don&rsquo;t lend him the keys to your pickup.&rdquo; &mdash;Chicago Tribune</div>

Republican Party Reptile

<div>The New York Times&ndash;bestselling author looks at the sixties generation, and how he and his seventy-five million accomplices made America what it is today. A onetime editor-in-chief of National Lampoon who also spent years reporting for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly, P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke is known as a conservative-minded political humorist and author of such bestsellers as Parliament of Whores. Not everyone knows that he was once a dedicated Marxist hippie type&mdash;living up to every stereotype of his postwar generation. In this book, at once a social history and a personal memoir (albeit with some impaired memory involved), he explores, with both fiercely biting wit and fondness, the mess that the baby boomers made, and the impact they&rsquo;ve had on our world. &ldquo;Dry wit that makes every chapter a delight . . . As a cultural analyst, O&rsquo;Rourke&rsquo;s ability and willingness to simultaneously lampoon and celebrate himself and his generation are unequaled.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;A terrific American memoir, in tone a beguiling mix of Jean Shepherd and Animal House.&rdquo; &mdash;Christopher Buckley, author of Boomsday &ldquo;Simultaneously hilarious and brainy . . . holds a cracked magnifying glass up to the generation of Americans born between the end of World War II and the early 1960s. Sifting through demographic and economic data and combining the results with generous portions of personal memories, O&rsquo;Rourke finds much to deplore in the boomer character, but even more to cherish and celebrate.&rdquo; &mdash;Chicago Tribune &ldquo;A comedic and caustic cautionary tale for future generations&mdash;and, for those of us who are Boomers, a nostalgic and hilarious diversion.&rdquo; &mdash;NPR</div>

The Baby Boom

<div>Humorous essays from the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author on travel, late-life parenting, and other perils. P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke, hailed as &ldquo;one of America&rsquo;s most hilarious writers&rdquo; by Time, is the author of the classic travelogue Holidays in Hell, in which he traversed the globe on a fun-finding mission to what were then some of the most desperate places on the planet, including Warsaw, Managua, and Belfast. In Holidays in Heck, O&rsquo;Rourke embarks on supposedly more comfortable and allegedly less dangerous travels&mdash;often with family in tow&mdash;which mostly leave him wishing he were under artillery fire again. The essays take O&rsquo;Rourke on a whirlwind of adventures, from the National Mall in Washington to a family ski vacation (to the Aspen of the Midwest&mdash;Ohio&mdash;where the highest point of elevation is the six-foot ski instructor that his wife thinks is cute). He also experiences a harrowing horseback ride across the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. The result is a hilarious and often moving portrait of life in the fast lane&mdash;only this time as a husband and father. &ldquo;In this cheeky follow-up to Holidays in Hell, former war correspondent O&rsquo;Rourke trades battle zones for more appealing travel destinations, often with his family in tow . . . O&rsquo;Rourke loses none of his sly humor, finding many opportunities to lampoon American politics under his new guise as a traveling family man.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;[O&rsquo;Rourke] provides colorful, earthy descriptive passages regarding stag hunts in Britain, extreme horseback riding in the wilds of Kyrgyzstan, a poignant look at his bout with cancer and a brief jaunt to Kabul, Afghanistan.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

Holidays in Heck

<div>The political humorist shares his transformation from dirty hippie to conservative middle-aged grouch: &ldquo;An incorrigible comic gift&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). The #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Give War a Chance was at one time a raving pinko, with scars on his formerly bleeding heart to prove it. In Age and Guile: Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut, P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke chronicles the remarkable trajectory that took him from the lighthearted fun of the revolutionary barricades to the serious business of the nineteenth hole. How did the O&rsquo;Rourke of 1970, who summarized the world of &ldquo;grown-ups&rdquo; as &ldquo;materialism, sexual hang-ups, the Republican party, uncomfortable clothes, engagement rings, car accidents, Pat Boone, competition, patriotism, cheating, lying, ranch houses, and TV&rdquo; come to be in favor of all of those things? What caused his metamorphosis from a beatnik-hippie type comfortable sleeping on dirty mattresses in pot-addled communes during his days as a writer for assorted &ldquo;underground&rdquo; papers? Here, O&rsquo;Rourke shows how his socialist idealism and avant-garde aesthetic tendencies were cured, and how he acquired a healthy and commendable interest in national defense, balanced budgets, Porsches, and Cohiba cigars. From a former editor-in-chief of National Lampoon and frequent NPR guest, this hilarious essay collection shows that there&rsquo;s hope for all those suffering from acute bohemianism.</div>

Age and Guile

<div>A #1 New York Times bestseller: &ldquo;An everyman&rsquo;s guide to Washington&rdquo; by the savagely funny political humorist and author of How the Hell Did This Happen? (The New York Times). P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke&rsquo;s Parliament of Whores has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American political system. Originally written at the end of the Reagan era, this new edition includes an extensive foreword by renowned journalist Andrew Ferguson&mdash;showing us that although the names may change, the game stays the same . . . or, occasionally, gets worse. Parliament of Whores is a &ldquo;gonzo civics book&rdquo; that takes us through the ethical foibles, pork-barrel flimflam, and Beltway bureaucracy, leaving no sacred cow unskewered and no politically correct sensitivities unscorched (Chicago Tribune). &ldquo;Insulting, inflammatory, profane, and absolutely great reading.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post Book World</div>

Parliament of Whores

<div>&ldquo;[A] merciless but often humorous look at the shortcomings of American politics&rdquo; by the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Parliament of Whores (Booklist). Don&rsquo;t Vote: It Just Encourages the Bastards is a brilliant, disturbing, hilarious, and sobering look at why politics and politicians are a necessary evil&mdash;but only just barely necessary. Read P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke on the pathetic nature of our attempts to govern ourselves and laugh through your tears or&mdash;what the hell&mdash;just laugh. &ldquo;Whether readers agree with O&rsquo;Rourke&rsquo;s politics or not, his style is funny, cutting, and insightful.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist &ldquo;P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke is like S. J. Perelman on acid.&rdquo; &mdash;Christopher Buckley &ldquo;The funniest writer in America.&rdquo; &mdash;The Wall Street Journal</div>

Don't Vote

<div>The #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author takes an &ldquo;unfailingly funny&rdquo; look at global problems and offers his own political perspective (The Washington Times). In this volume, the political humorist and former National Lampoon editor-in-chief attacks fashionable worries&mdash;all those terrible problems that are constantly on our minds and in the news, but about which most of us have no real clue&mdash;and crisscrosses the globe in search of solutions to today&rsquo;s most vexing issues, including overpopulation, famine, plague, and multiculturalism. In the process, he produces a hilarious and informative book which ensures that the concept of political correctness will never be the same again. &ldquo;One of the funniest, most insightful, dead-on-the-money books of the year.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times &ldquo;O&rsquo;Rourke&rsquo;s best work since Parliament of Whores.&rdquo; &mdash;The Houston Post &ldquo;Bottom line: Buy the book.&rdquo; &mdash;The Wall Street Journal</div>

All the Trouble in the World

<div>An essential collection of career-spanning writings by the political satirist and #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Parliament of Whores. From his early pieces for the National Lampoon, through his classic reporting as Rolling Stone&rsquo;s International Affairs editor in the 1980s and 1990s, and his brilliant, inimitable political journalism and analysis, P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke has been entertaining and provoking readers with high octane prose, a gonzo Republican attitude, and a rare ability to make you laugh out loud. Christopher Buckley once described his work as &ldquo;S. J. Perelman on acid.&rdquo; Thrown Under the Omnibus brings together his funniest, most outrageous, most controversial, and most loved pieces in the definitive O&rsquo;Rourke reader. Handpicked and introduced by the humorist himself, Thrown Under the Omnibus is the essential O&rsquo;Rourke anthology. &ldquo;The funniest writer in America.&rdquo; &mdash;The Wall Street Journal</div>

Thrown Under the Omnibus

<div>The iconic humorist offers his take on the stranger-than-fiction (and stranger-than-fact) 2016 presidential election and its equally unbelievable aftermath. The 2016 election cycle was so absurd that celebrated political satirist, journalist, and die-hard Republican P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. As P. J. put it, &ldquo;America is experiencing the most severe outbreak of mass psychosis since the Salem witch trials of 1692. So why not put Hillary on the dunking stool?&rdquo; In How the Hell Did This Happen?, P. J. brings his critical eye and inimitable voice to some seriously risky business. Starting in June 2015, he asks, &ldquo;Who are these jacklegs, high-binders, wire-pullers, mountebanks, swellheads, buncombe spigots, four-flushers and animated spittoons offering themselves as worthy of America&rsquo;s highest office?&rdquo; and surveys the full cast of presidential candidates including everyone you&rsquo;ve already forgotten and everyone you wish you could forget. P. J. offers a brief history of how our insane process for picking who will run for president evolved, from the very first nominating convention (thanks, Anti-Masonic Party) through the reforms of the Progressive era (because there&rsquo;s nothing that can&rsquo;t be worsened by reform) to the present. He takes us through the debates and key primaries and analyzes everything from the campaign platforms (or lack thereof) to presidential style (&ldquo;Trump&rsquo;s appearance&mdash;indeed, Trump&rsquo;s existence&mdash;is a little guy&rsquo;s idea of living large. A private plane! A swell joint in Florida! Gold-plated toilet handles!&rdquo;). And he rises from the depths of despair to come up with a better way to choose a president. Following his come-to-Satan moment with Hillary and the Beginning of End Times in November, P. J. reckons with a new age: &ldquo;America is experiencing a change in the nature of leadership. We&rsquo;re getting rid of our leaders. And we&rsquo;re starting at the top.&rdquo; &ldquo;Where are we going? Where have we been? P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke casts his gimlet gaze on the circus of clowns-people foisted on us by the 2016 election&mdash;and demands to know How the Hell Did This Happen?&rdquo; &mdash;Vanity Fair</div>

How the Hell Did This Happen?

<div>The #1 New York Times-bestselling author who “never fails to find the absurd” addresses everything from airport security to the Iraq War (The New York Times Book Review). To unravel the mysteries of war, P.J. O’Rourke first visits Kosovo. (“Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months later and bomb the country next to where it's happening.”) He travels to Israel at the outbreak of the intifada. He flies to Egypt in the wake of the 9/11 terrorists' attacks. and contemplates bygone lunacies. (“Why are the people in the Middle East so crazy? Here, at the pyramids, was an answer from the earliest days of civilization: People have always been crazy.”) He covers the demonstrations and the denunciations of war. Finally he arrives in Baghdad with the U.S. Army, and enters one of Saddam's palaces. (“If a reason for invading Iraq was needed, felony interior decorating would have sufficed.”) With this collection, P.J. O’Rourke once again demonstrates that he is “an acerbic master of gonzo journalism and one of America’s most hilarious and provocative writers” (Time).</div>

Peace Kills

<div>In a time of chaos, the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling political humorist asks his fellow Americans to take it down a notch. Is there an upside to being woke (and unable to get back to sleep)? If we license dentists, why don&rsquo;t we license politicians? Is your juicer sending fake news to your FitBit about what&rsquo;s in your refrigerator? The legendary P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke addresses these questions and more in this hilarious new collection of essays about our nation&rsquo;s propensity for anger and perplexity, which includes such gems as &ldquo;An Inaugural Address I&rsquo;d Like to Hear&rdquo; (Ask not what your country can do for you, ask how I can get the hell out of here) and &ldquo;Sympathy vs. Empathy,&rdquo; which contemplates whether it&rsquo;s better to hold people&rsquo;s hands or bust into their heads. Also included is a handy quiz to find out where you stand on the Coastals-vs.-Heartlanders spectrum. From the author of Parliament of Whores, None of My Business, and other modern classics, this is a smart look at the current state of these United States, and a plea to everyone to take a deep breath, relax, and enjoy a few good laughs. &ldquo;To say that P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke is funny is like saying the Rocky Mountains are scenic&mdash;accurate but insufficient.&rdquo; &mdash;Chicago Tribune &ldquo;The funniest writer in America.&rdquo; &mdash;The Wall Street Journal</div>

A Cry from the Far Middle

<div>The #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author takes on subjects from banking to bitcoin: &ldquo;Another winner from an A-list humorist.&rdquo; &#8213;Booklist Sharp-witted satirist and author of Parliament of Whores P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke takes on his scariest subjects yet&mdash;business, investment, finance, and the political chicanery behind them. Want to get rich overnight for free in three easy steps with no risk? Then don&rsquo;t buy this book. (Actually, if you believe there&rsquo;s a book that can do that, you shouldn&rsquo;t buy any books because you probably can&rsquo;t read.) P. J. O&rsquo;Rourke&rsquo;s approach to business, investment, and finance is different. He takes the risks for you in his chapter &ldquo;How I Learned Economics by Watching People Try to Kill Each Other.&rdquo; He proposes &ldquo;A Way to Raise Taxes That We&rsquo;ll All Love&rdquo;&mdash;a 200% tax on celebrities. He offers a brief history of economic transitions before exploring the world of high tech innovation with a chapter on &ldquo;Unnovations,&rdquo; which asks, &ldquo;The Internet&mdash;whose idea was it to put all the idiots on earth in touch with each other?&rdquo; He misunderstands bitcoin, which seems &ldquo;like a weird scam invented by strange geeks with weaponized slide rules in the high school Evil Math Club.&rdquo; And finally, he offers a fanciful short story about the morning that P. J. wakes up and finds that all the world&rsquo;s goods and services are free! &ldquo;The funniest writer in America.&rdquo; &#8213;The Wall Street Journal</div>

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