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Bibliography
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(2011)
Holidays in Heck
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(2010)
Don't Vote: It Just Encourages the Bastards
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(2009)
Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-bending, Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed To Be -- With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a ... of the Federal Reserve Mowing Our Lawn
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(2006)
On the Wealth of Nations
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(2004)
Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism
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- Legal name: P. J. O'Rourke
- Birthdate: November 14, 1947 (age 64)
- Birthplace: Toledo, OH, USA
- Nationality: American
- Gender: Male
- Official Website: http://www.pjorourke.com/
- Genres: Politics, Economics, Humor
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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... Don't Tell Me! He is known in the United Kingdom as the face of a long-running series of television advertisements for British Airways in the 1990s.
He is the author of 15 books, most recently Driving Like Crazy. This was preceded by On The Wealth of Nations, a commentary on Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. According to a 60 Minutes profile, he is also the most quoted living man in The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations. He is considered a libertarian, and is often quoted by libertarian and anti-socialist writers and pundits.
He is the author of 15 books, most recently Driving Like Crazy. This was preceded by On The Wealth of Nations, a commentary on Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. According to a 60 Minutes profile, he is also the most quoted living man in The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations. He is considered a libertarian, and is often quoted by libertarian and anti-socialist writers and pundits.
- National Lampoon's 1964 High School Yearbook Parody (1974) (with Doug Kenney)
- National Lampoon's Sunday Newspaper Parody (1978) (with John Hughes)
- Ferrari Refutes the Decline of The West (1979)
- Modern Manners (1983)
- The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)
- Republican Party Reptile (1987)
- Holidays in Hell (1989)
- Parliament of Whores (1991) ISBN 0330319914
- Give War a Chance (1992) ISBN 0679742018
- All the Trouble in the World (1994) ISBN 0-330-35631-3
- Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut (1995)
- The American Spectator's Enemies List (1996)
- Eat the Rich (1999) ISBN 0-330-35328-4
- The CEO of the Sofa (2001) ISBN 0-802-13940-X
- Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism (2004) ISBN 0-802-14198-6
- On the Wealth of Nations: Books That Changed the World (2007) ISBN 0-802-14342-3
- Driving Like Crazy (2009) ISBN 978-0802118837
