O'Rourke, P. J.
Summary: "When The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations was published in 1987, P. J. O'Rourke had more entries than any living writer. And he kept writing funny stuff for another thirty-five years. Now, for the first time, P.J.'s best quips and riffs have been collected in one volume, edited by his longtime friend and award-winning magazine editor Terry McDonell. The Funny Stuff is organized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2001
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Summary: A portrait of the baby boom generation celebrates the bad trips, questionable politics, and outrageous styles of the author and his generation while analyzing how the boom shaped contemporary America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2014
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Contents: Juvenilia delinquent : "underground" press, 1970-1972 -- The truth about the sixties and other fiction -- Days of wage : National lampoon, 1971-1981 -- Drives to nowhere : automotive journalism -- Essays, prefaces, speeches, reviews, and things jotted on napkins -- Current and recurrent events. -- Bad sports.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1995
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Summary: "No comedian could have written the joke this election cycle has been. The punch line is too ridiculous (whoever the punch line is going to be). Or, as celebrated political satirist, journalist, and diehard Republican P. J. O'Rourke put it in his endorsement of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton: "America is experiencing the most severe outbreak of mass psychosis since the Salem witch trials...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2017
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Summary: "When P.J. O'Rourke sets off around the world to find answers to some of our most pressing problems - famine in Somalia, plague in Haiti, multiculturalism in the former Yugoslavia - he returns with some surprising observations. But then this is the bestselling author of "Holidays in Hell" and "Give War a Chance" and politically correct he isn't: 'If the outdoors is so swell, ' he asks after an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1994
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Summary: A follow-up to "Holidays in Hell" collects classic travel pieces written throughout the author's post-retirement years, a period marked by his haphazard journeys with and without family to such regions as China, Kyrgyzstan, and America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2011
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Summary: P.J. O'Rourke travels to hellholes around the globe looking for trouble, the truth and a good time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2000
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Summary: An upbeat dissemination of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" condenses and illuminates the key points of the original works while discussing how their messages remain relevant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2006
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Summary: A collection of O'Rourke's writings about cars for Car and Driver, Automobile, Esquire, Forbes, and other publications.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly 2009
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Summary: P.J. O'Rourke reads and interprets Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 330.153 OROO'Rourke, P. J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 OROStone, Dan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Endowment for the Arts 2007