P.J. O'Rourke




P.J. O'Rourke

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born
November 14, 1947

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male

place of birth
Toledo, Ohio, The United States

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Nonfiction, Humor, Politics


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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 "Books That Changed The World" series...more




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I GREW UP IN TOLEDO, if up is the word. Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done from street level into creek beds and road cuts. In Toledo people grow out — out to the suburbs, out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous, and, all too often, out to a ... ...more
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Parliament of Whores: A Lone H... Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
by P.J. O'Rourke
avg rating 4.06 — 505 ratings — published 1991
11 editions
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Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Ec... Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics
by P.J. O'Rourke
avg rating 3.76 — 418 ratings — published 1998
7 editions
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Holidays in Hell Holidays in Hell
by P.J. O'Rourke
avg rating 4.01 — 371 ratings — published 1988
8 editions
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All the Trouble in the World:... All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty
by P.J. O'Rourke
avg rating 3.91 — 322 ratings — published 1994
9 editions
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Give War a Chance: Eyewitness... Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer
by P.J. O'Rourke
avg rating 3.82 — 257 ratings — published 1992
7 editions
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Age and Guile Beat Youth, Inno... Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
by P.J. O'Rourke
avg rating 3.50 — 242 ratings — published 1995
10 editions
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On The Wealth of Nations On The Wealth of Nations (Books That Changed the World)
by P.J. O'Rourke
avg rating 3.48 — 228 ratings — published 2006
8 editions
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Modern Manners: An Etiquette B... Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
by P.J. O'Rourke
avg rating 3.69 — 212 ratings — published 1989
4 editions
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Peace Kills: America's Fun New... Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism
by P.J. O'Rourke
avg rating 3.36 — 194 ratings — published 2004
9 editions
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Republican Party Reptile: The... Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays, and (Other) Outrages of...
by P.J. O'Rourke
avg rating 3.81 — 156 ratings — published 1987
3 editions
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"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
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"Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights -- the "right" to education, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery -- hay and a barn for human cattle. There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."
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"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
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