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A Cry From The Far Middle by P. J. O'Rourke
$32.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
P.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry is what America has always been all about. This uproarious look at the current state of the United States includes essays like 'The New Puritanism - and Welcome to It,' about ...Show more
A Cry from the Far Middle - Dispatches from a Divided Land by P. J. O'Rourke
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Observations on the present political moment, and the discord that defines it, from the best man for the job: bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P.J. O'Rourke P. J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry are wha ...Show more
Baby Boom: How it Got That Way...and it Wasn't My Fault...and I'll Never Do it Again by P. J. O'Rourke
$28.99 NZD
Category: History
"The Baby Boom - over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said with a straight face, 'We are the world.' What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? Ask the generation responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall and their knickers. ...Show more
DON'T VOTE - It Just Encourages the Bastards by P.J. O'Rourke
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Best-selling humorist P.J. O'Rourke is back with his latest political masterpiece, DON'T VOTE - It Just Encourages the Bastards. Using his signature wit and keen observational skills, O'Rourke reflects on his forty year career as a political commentator, spanning his addled hippie youth to his current s ...Show more
DON'T VOTE: It Just Encourages the Bastards by P.J. O'Rourke
$36.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
In his new book, "DON'T VOTE - It Just Encourages the Bastards", best-selling political humorist P.J. O'Rourke writes the mirthful political theory companion to his classic political science book, Parliament of Whores. Best-selling humorist P.J. O'Rourke is back with his latest political masterpiece, "D ...Show more
Holidays in Heck by P. J. O'Rourke
$28.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Holidays in Heck takes the reader on a globe-trotting journey to far-reaching places including China, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and the Galapagos Islands. The collection begins after the Iraq War, when P.J. retired from being a war correspondent because he was "too old to keep being scared stiff and too s ...Show more
Holidays in Heck by P.J. O'Rourke
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
The long-awaited follow up to the classic Holidays in Hell, P.J. O'Rourke's Holidays in Heck is the middle-aged version of his classic travel pieces, featuring journeys to China, Venice, the UK and beyond. Holidays in Heck takes the reader on a globe-trotting journey to far-reaching places including Chi ...Show more
Holidays in Hell by P. J. O'Rourke
$28.99 NZD
Category: Travel
P.J. O'Rourke travels to hellholes around the globe in Holidays in Hell, looking for trouble, the truth, and a good time. After casually sight-seeing in war-torn Lebanon and being pepper-gassed in Korea, P.J. checks out the night life in communist Poland and spends the Christmas holidays in El Salvador. ...Show more
How the Hell Did This Happen?: A Cautionary Tale of American Democracy by P.J. O'Rourke
$22.99 NZD
Category: History
This election cycle was so absurd that celebrated political satirist, journalist, and die-hard Republican P. J. O'Rourke endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. How the Hell Did This Happen? is his essential take on the stranger-than-fiction (and stranger-than-fact) 2016 presidential election and ...Show more
How the Hell Did This Happen?: The US Election of 2016 by P. J. O'Rourke
$32.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
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). Celebrated political satirist, journalist, and diehard Republican P.J. O'Rourke brings his critical eye and inimitable voice to some serious risky business. How ...Show more
None of My Business: P.J. Explains Money, Banking, Debt, Equity, Assets, Liabilities and Why He's Not Rich and Neither Are You by P. J. O'Rourke
$24.99 NZD
Category: Business & Finance | Reading Level: 3 Biography
P. J. O'Rourke channels his extensive experience of making fun of terrible things in despicable places and applies it to somewhere even worse - Wall Street. Delving into the world of big money has all the excitement of being a war correspondent with only two-thirds of the danger. In None of My Business ...Show more
On The Wealth of Nations by P J O'Rourke
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: Ten Books That Changed the World S. | Reading Level: good
'The Wealth of Nations is, without doubt a 'book that changed the world.' But it has been taking its time. Two hundred and thirty one years after publication, Adam Smith's practical truths are only beginning to be absorbed in full. Although its contents didn't make people gasp, something about The Wealt ...Show more