P.J. O'Rourke

Parliament of Whores

Praise:
"Pick up O'Rourke's Parliament of Whores, a riotously funny and perceptive indictment of America's political system. You'll stop reading only when you stop laughing. . . . Parliament of Whores may not spark a revolution, but it one of the few books on civic affairs worth reading from cover to cover."-Michael Riley, Time

"P.J. O'Rourke's new book is the most outrageous American civics text ever written. It is insulting, inflammatory, profane and absolutely great reading."-Landon Parvin, The Washington Post Book World

"Being a politically conservative baby-boomer and the White House correspondent for Rolling Stone magazine would guarantee P.J. O'Rourke a pretty strange perspective to begin with. Add to that his quirky, revealing turns of phrases and a healthy non-partisan irreverence, and these collected articles are remarkably fresh, even when they're about the 1988 political conventions."-Caryn James, New York Times

"A bilious, muckraking, liberal-bashing, Bush-burning, entitlement-tweaking, thoroughly hilarious screed that does for the inner workings of American government what Marion Barry did for hotel-room home movies."-Joseph P. Kahn, Boston Globe

"Parliament of Whores is exceptional. It's funny, outrageous and right-on."-Curt Schleier, Philadelphia Inquirer

"An impressive series of scathingly hilarious screeds directed against the high and mighty and the low and relentless."-Joe Leydon, Houston Post

"Best humor book of the year. What is truly extraordinary is that it is also the most accurate, incisive, informative civics textbook around today, a wickedly wonderful rebuke to the numerous educators who make the study of government so boring and off-base."-Forbes

"Parliament of Whores is very witty. It almost makes government make sense."-Mike Wilson, Miami Herald

"P.J. O'Rourke is not a man to suffer fools-or foolishness. And thank goodness. Without his latest book, Parliament of Whores, we might never realize what a cesspool of silliness American government really is. . . . Civics class was never this amusing."-Deb Mulvey, Milwaukee Sentinel

"[O'Rourke] is often so marvelously funny, it's worth putting aside one's biases in order to enjoy some humor so sharp it draws blood from both right and left."-Paul Craig, Sacramento Bee

"As his entertaining, informative and fun-filled book proves on every page, O'Rourke is arguably mainstream journalism's cleverest and most politically incorrect humorist. He is funny, flip, sarcastic, rude, irreverent, perceptive, a little nasty, bright and talented."-Bill Steigerwald, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"This is a well-written, pointed, entertaining book. It's not journalism in the purest sense, but it works. And it may be the most forthcoming and accurate civics lesson in print."-David Gould, Savannah Press