Age and Guile: Beat Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut - Hardcover
By the author of "All the Trouble in the World." This is a volume of previously uncollected pieces by P.J. O'Rourke, spanning his 25 years in journalism. The work ranges from 1970, when he wrote for the "Underground" and "National Lampoon", to his 1996 position on "Rolling Stone" magazine.
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Readers can be excused for a little motion sickness when reading this collection of pieces from P.J. O'Rourke. To go from preaching "Armed Love" (whatever that is) to being anointed as the ultra-libertarian Cato Institute's favorite humorist in only 25 years is an astounding transformation.
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Still, whether it's New Left juvenilia or high-octane auto journalism scrawled in the Age of Cocaine, one thing holds true: O'Rourke writes one hell of a sentence. Here's P.J.'s impression of Nixon explaining Vietnam to a bunch of hippies: "To be really out front, I get off on ego trips, power games. But, like that's where I'm at ... I mean you can put me down for kicking your ass but don't put me down for being an ass-kicker 'cause that's my movie." Then fast-forward 17 years: "Sure, everyone says the Sixties were fun. Down at the American Legion hall, everybody says World War II was fun, if you talk to them after 10:00 p.m." Age and Guile is fun, whatever time it is.
Judging by this enjoyable volume, political humorist P.J. O'Rourke was a smart-ass when he was a drug-crazed hippie radical and remains one today as a conservative basher of liberal folly. Norman Dietz has a perfect handle on his sense of humor in this anthology covering more than twenty-five years of his commentary. Whether the listener agrees or disagrees with his politics won't affect the pleasurable effect of his comic iconoclasm, which Dietz delivers with personality and a good sense of timing. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherPicador (An Imprint of Macmillan General Books)
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0330335820
- ISBN 13 9780330335829
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages368
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