
Age and Guile
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The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Give War a Chance 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, P.J. 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 "grown-ups" as "materialism, sexual hang-ups, the Republican party, uncomfortable clothes, engagement rings, car accidents, Pat Boone, competition, patriotism, cheating, lying, ranch houses, and TV" come to be in favor of all of those things? What caused his metamorphosis from a beatnik-hippie type comfortable sleeping on dirty mattresses in pot-addled communes during his days as a writer for assorted "underground" papers? Here, O'Rourke shows how his socialist idealism and avant-garde aesthetic tendencies were cured, and how he acquired a healthy and commendable interest in national defense, balanced budgets, Porsches, and Cohiba cigars.
From a former editor-in-chief of National Lampoon and frequent NPR guest, this hilarious essay collection shows that there's hope for all those suffering from acute bohemianism.
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- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- Juvenilia Delinquent
- Why I Invaded Cambodia
- The Boxer Shorts Rebellion
- Jets and Sharks Drop Acid, Read Marcuse
- Harry Interviews a Grown-up
- Editorial from the "Bummer" Issue
- "Taking the Train"
- Poems
- The Truth About the Sixties and Other Fiction
- An Inquiry into the Nature of Good and Evil
- Dynamite
- Another Tale of Uncle Mike
- Ghosts of Responsibility
- A Perfect Couple
- An Atheist in the Foxhole
- Days of Wage
- A Few Thoughts on Humor and Humorists
- Unpaid Bills
- The Problem with Communism
- How Fluoridated Water Turns Kids into Communists
- So Drunk
- Why I'm Not Afraid of the Dark
- Drives to Nowhere
- The Welsh National Combined Mud Wresding and Spelling Bee Championship
- Boom Squeal Boom Squeal Yip Yip Yip
- A Borderline Experience
- The Ultimate Politically Incorrect Car
- Surf and Turf Safari
- P.J. Meets the Atomic Death Toboggan
- Die, Eco-weenies!
- Essays, Prefaces, Speeches, Reviews, and Things Jotted on Napkins
- Contribution to "Sixty Things a Man Should Know"
- Foreword to A Modern Man's Guide to Women
- On First Looking into Emily Post's Etiquette
- Book Tour
- Speech Given to Libertarians
- Thoughts on the Prospect of a Sixties Revival
- Current and Recurrent Events
- The 1994 Mexican Elections
- The 1987 Stock Market Crash
- Whitewater
- Health Care Reform
- The Caribbean Refugee Crisis
- 100 Reasons Why Jimmy Carter Was a Better President than Bill Clinton
- Republicans Take Control of Congress
- Bad Sports
- Fly-Fishing
- Bird Hunting
- Deep-Sea Fishing
- Golf
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