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About P. J. O'Rourke

Patrick Jake O'Rourke (November 14, 1947 – February 15, 2022) was an American author, journalist, and political satirist who wrote twenty-two books on subjects as diverse as politics, cars, etiquette, and economics. His books Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance both reached No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list.

After beginning his career writing for the National Lampoon, O'Rourke went on to serve as foreign affairs desk chief for Rolling Stone where he reported from far-flung places. Later he wrote for a number of publications, including The Atlantic, the Daily Beast, the Wall Street Journal, and the Weekly Standard, and was a longtime panelist on NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!.

The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 states, "O'Rourke's original reporting, irreverent humor, and crackerjack writing makes for delectable reading. He never minces words or pulls his punches, whatever the subject."

P. J. O'Rourke writes about Humor, Humor, topic, politics, Humor, general, United States, American wit and humor, and Politics and government. Their best-known work is Modern manners.

On FindMyTBR we track 14 books by P. J. O'Rourke, 14 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including A Cry from the Far Middle : Dispatches from a Divided Land, Don't Vote - It Just Encourages the Bastards (Unabridged), and Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-bending Celebrating America the Way It’s Supposed to Be--With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Every Carport, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Mowing Our Lawn (Unabridged). Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.