Praise for P.J. O'Rourke: "A prolific humorist continues his outpouring of solid writing. . . some very fine travel writing, the best of which is wickedly droll -- O'Rourke at his very best. . . . Here's hoping there's another 15 books still to come."--"Los Angeles Times" on "Holidays in Heck" "If all of America's registered Republicans were struck by an ideology-specific bird flu, and 50 among them had to be placed in a secure bunker to repopulate the species entirely, P.J. O'Rourke would hold a place on many people's list, mine included. He's funny. He tends to be against boredom and in favor of the pursuit of nonsobriety. He has a sharp nose for cant and bogusness. His conservatism is rooted in a fondness for ordinary things and a philosophy of individual common sense." --Dwight Garner, "The New York Times" on "Holidays in Heck" "O'Rourke is an actual conservative, with ideas and a conscience, as opposed to the stealth flacks staying on party message that often pass for conservatives in these Hannitized and Limbaughtomized days."--"Chicago Sun-Times" on "Peace Kills" "Mocking on the surface but serious beneath, sharply attuned to quotidian hypocrisy and contradiction...this book contains some of O'Rourke's best work to date. When it comes to scouting the world for world-class absurdities, he is the right man for the job."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review" on "Give War a Chance" "His explanations . . . with a-joke-each-phrase aplomb (forget waiting until the end of the sentence) make you wish he had been your economics professor in college instead of the bow-tie wearing nerd who droned on about widgets. In fact, if you fell asleep hiding your eyelids under the rim of your baseball cap during Econ 101, this book is for you."--"The Philadelphia Inquirer" on "Eat the Rich" "Highly pungent and wickedly accurate observations . . . [from a] boisterous, pedal-to-the-floor humorist . . . The results would curl the ponytails of mos

P.J. O'Rourke is the author of fourteen books, including "Parliament of Whores" and "Give War a Chance," both of which were #1 "New York Times" best sellers. His most recent book is "Holidays in Heck."