Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
by P. J. O'Rourke
ISBN: 0-87113-653-8 / ISBN-13: 978-0-87113-653-4
US $13.50 - 6 x 9, 368 pp - Sep. 1996
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Table of Contents:
| “Underground” Press, 1970-1972 |
| by Richard Milhous Nixon (as told to P.J. O’R.) | |
| The Boxer Shorts Rebellion | 12 |
| An Exclusive Look at Sex Behind the Bamboo Curtain | |
| Jets and Sharks Drop Acid, Read Marcuse | 18 |
| Harry Interviews a Grown-up | 21 |
| Editorial from the “Bummer” Issue | 27 |
| In Three Acts by the Penn Central Players | |
| #9 (the evolution of surprise) | |
| The Truth About the Sixties and Other Fiction | |
| An Inquiry into the Nature of Good and Evil | 44 |
| Another Tale of Uncle Mike | 68 |
| Ghosts of Responsibility | 71 |
| An Atheist in the Foxhole | 91 |
| National Lampoon, | 1972-1981 |
| A Few Thoughts on Humor and Humorists | 100 |
| The Problem with Communism | 110 |
| How Fluoridated Water Turns Kids into Communists | 113 |
| Why I’m Not Afraid of the Dark | 131 |
| The Welsh National Combined Mud Wrestling and Spelling Bee Championship | 140 |
| Boom Squeal Boom Squeal Yip Yip Yip | 151 |
| A Borderline Experience | 160 |
| The Ultimate Politically Incorrect Car | 173 |
| P.J. Meets the Atomic Death Toboggan | 183 |
| Essays, Prefaces, Speeches, Reviews, and Things Jotted on Napkins | |
| Contribution to “Sixty Things a Man Should Know” | 201 |
| Foreword to A Modern Man’s Guide to Women | 205 |
| On First Looking into Emily Post’s Etiquette | 209 |
| Speech Given to Libertarians | 226 |
| Thoughts on the Prospect of a Sixties Revival | 230 |
| Current and Recurrent Events | |
| The 1994 Mexican Elections | 241 |
| The 1987 Stock Market Crash | 261 |
| The Caribbean Refugee Crisis | 283 |
| 100 Reasons Why Jimmy Carter Was a Better President than Bill Clinton | 287 |
| Republicans Take Control of Congress | 294 |
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