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  <name><![CDATA[P.J. O'Rourke]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Patrick Jake O'Rourke is an American political satirist, journalist, and writer. 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 perhaps best 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 13 books, most recently On The Wealth of Nations, a commentary on Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (and the first in The Atlantic Monthly's &quot;Books That Changed The World&quot; series). According to a 60 Minutes profile, he is also the most quoted living man in the The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations.

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  <title><![CDATA[Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government]]></title>
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  <published>1991</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[P.J. O'Rourke]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Holidays in Hell]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[P.J. O'Rourke]]></name>
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  <published>1988</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[P.J. O'Rourke]]></name>
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  <published>1994</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[P.J. O'Rourke]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[P.J. O'Rourke]]></name>
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  <published>1995</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[On The Wealth of Nations (Books That Changed the World)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[P.J. O'Rourke]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.47</average_rating>
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  <published>2006</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[P.J. O'Rourke]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.70</average_rating>
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  <published>1989</published>  
  
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        <book id="44782">
  <title><![CDATA[Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[P.J. O'Rourke]]></name>
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  <published>2004</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays, and (Other) Outrages of...]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[P.J. O'Rourke]]></name>
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  <published>1987</published>  
  
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