The American Spectator's Enemies List
A Vigilant Journalist's Plea for a Renewed Red Scare
Published on 1. September 2018
160 pages
978-1-55584-711-1 (ISBN)
Description
Whatever happened to good old-fashioned red-baiting? The #1
New York Times-bestselling humorist rails against the silly people in our midst...
In the midst of the Clinton years, political satirist P.J. O'Rourke, in conjunction with the conservative magazine The American Spectator, launched into a gleeful project: carrying on the grand tradition of McCarthyism by compiling a New Enemies List. Their goal: to reveal the utter silliness of politicians, celebrities, and "everyone to the left of Edmund Burke" ( Booklist). From Noam Chomsky to Yoko Ono to all the people who think quartz crystals cure herpes, this list is the result-and the book also include O'Rourke's treatises on why Jimmy Carter was a better president than Bill Clinton, and why the author of Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance is a conservative in the first place.
In the midst of the Clinton years, political satirist P.J. O'Rourke, in conjunction with the conservative magazine The American Spectator, launched into a gleeful project: carrying on the grand tradition of McCarthyism by compiling a New Enemies List. Their goal: to reveal the utter silliness of politicians, celebrities, and "everyone to the left of Edmund Burke" ( Booklist). From Noam Chomsky to Yoko Ono to all the people who think quartz crystals cure herpes, this list is the result-and the book also include O'Rourke's treatises on why Jimmy Carter was a better president than Bill Clinton, and why the author of Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance is a conservative in the first place.
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P. J. O'Rourke
The Enemies List
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04/1996
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Person
P.J. O'Rourke has written nineteen books, including
Modern Manners,
Parliament of Whores, and
All the Trouble in the World. He has written for such publications as
Car and Driver,
Esquire,
Vanity Fair,
The New Republic,
The New York Times Book Review,
Parade,
Harper's Magazine, and
Rolling Stone. He is currently editor-in-chief of
American Consequences.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction by Wladyslaw Pleszczynski
- Part I: A Call for a New McCarthyism
- Part II: The Readers Respond
- Part III: The Readers Keep Responding
- Part IV: Shoot the Wounded
- Part V: Insult the Injured
- Part VI: Commies-Dead but Too Dumb to Lie Down
- Part VII: Enemies in the White House
- Part VIII: 100 Reasons Why Jimmy Carter Was a Better President Than Bill Clinton
- Part IX: Why I Am a Conservative in the First Place
