Pj orourke age and guile

  • From the hippie joys and hazards of communal living to the conservative think-tank dinners in Washington, from his fear of the dark to his love of cars, P.J. O'Rourke takes us through the experiences which have shaped his irreverent attitude.
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  • In Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut, O'Rourke chronicles the remarkable trajectory that took him from the lighthearted fun of the.

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    Age and Guile

    Readers may be shocked to discover that America's most provocative (and conservative) satirist, P. J. O'Rourke, was at one time a raving pinko, with scars on his formerly bleeding heart to prove it. In Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut, O'Rourke chronicles the remarkable trajectory that took him from the lighthearted fun of the revolutionary barricades to the serious business of the nineteenth hole. How did the O'Rourke of 1970, who summarized the world of &quote;grown-ups&quote; as &quote;materialism, sexual hang-ups, the Republican party, uncomfortable clothes, engagement rings, car accidents, Pat Boone, competition, patriotism, cheating, lying, ranch houses, and TV&quote; come to be in favor of all of those things? What causes a beatnik-hippie type, comfortable sleeping on dirty mattresses in pot-addled communes - as P. J. did when he was a writer for assorted &quote;underground&quote; papers-to metamorphosize into a ri

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    Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut

    Atlantic Monthly Press
    Atlantic Monthly Press
    Atlantic Monthly Press
    byP. J. O’Rourke

    “No time left for pamphleting and leafleting, picketing and petitioning, talking and walking around. Time to TRASH THE STATE!” Abbie Hoffman? Huey Newton? No, it’s P.J. o’Rourke, circa 1970. Now America’s most provocative (and conservative) satirist”the author of the national best-sellers Parliament of Whores, Give War a Chance, and All the Trouble in the World“o’Rourke was at one time a raving pinko, with the scab on his bleeding heart to prove it. Through twenty-five years of his writing, Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut guides us on the journey that has taken o’Rourke from the lighthearted fun of revolutionary barricades to the serious business of the nineteenth hole.

    How did the o’Rourke of 1970, who summarized the world of “

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    Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut

    February 11, 2008
    First and foremost: it fryst vatten worth noting (and it pains an saddens me that this is the case) that the phrase "Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut" is the first time I have seen a three-item list with correct grammar in a book printed in America after World War II.

    Second, and not quite so foremost: P. J. O'Rourke is a very, very funny guy. He is completely politically incorrect, in most cases, and is therefore more than happy to pull out the jokes, puns, and other humorous concepts his more liberal colleagues have left to the dust.

    Third, and not really far up there on the scale, but still worth mentioning: in most ways, P. J. O'Rourke is a tremendous boon to the right-wing American. He's not afraid to take pot-shots at just about anything, including fellow members of the right (Pat Buchanan is roasted almost as often as Bill Clinton), and he's not afraid to admit his mistakes, such as endorsing Clinton in 1992.
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