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O'Rourke published over 20 books, including three New York Times bestsellers. Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance reached No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list. [17] He also wrote Modern Manners and Holidays in Hell. [12] O'Rourke was a "Real Time Real Reporter" for Real Time with Bill Maher covering the 2008 presidential election ...
The first few books cover Rourke's attempts to find his family, on the way fighting invading Soviet troops as well as typical post-apocalyptic villains such as biker gangs, mutants and cannibals in extended scenes of graphic violence. Later books head more into science fiction with cryonics, doomsday weapons and underwater cities.
Many of the stories were collected into a book of the same name, followed shortly thereafter by a companion book entitled The Old Man's Boy Grows Older. Today these two books are probably his best remembered works. Twenty stories were also published in the book Robert Ruark's Africa. [3] Ruark's first bestselling novel was published in 1955.
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government is an international best-selling political humor book by P. J. O'Rourke published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1991. It is a scathing critique of the American system of governance from a libertarian perspective.
Podcast of PJ O'Rourke talking about Eat the Rich on the BBC's World Book Club; O'Rourke, Patrick J. (25 August 2000), Eat the Rich (1st in paperback ed.), Avalon Travel, ISBN 978-0-87113-760-9; Presentation by O'Rourke on Eat the Rich, September 15, 1998, C-SPAN; Booknotes interview with O'Rourke on Each the Rich, January 3, 1999, C-SPAN
Republican Party Reptile, subtitled The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P. J. O'Rourke is a 1987 collection of essays by American satirical writer P. J. O'Rourke. [1] Some of the works were previously published in House & Garden and Harper's. [2] O'Rourke planned to promote the book at the 1988 Republican National ...
Holidays in Hell is a non-fiction book by P.J. O'Rourke about his visits to areas of conflict during the 1980s as a foreign correspondent, as well as to some less high-profile locations. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Places visited
Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice and Alcohol-Free Beer is a 1992 book by American writer P J O'Rourke. [1] The pieces in the book start with reports about glasnost and end with his accounts as a reporter for Rolling Stone on the Gulf War.