Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, 01/12/2007 - 240 páginas
A #1 New York Times bestseller: “An everyman’s guide to Washington” by the savagely funny political humorist and author of How the Hell Did This Happen? (The New York Times).
 
P. J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American political system. Originally written at the end of the Reagan era, this new edition includes an extensive foreword by renowned journalist Andrew Ferguson—showing us that although the names may change, the game stays the same . . . or, occasionally, gets worse.
 
Parliament of Whores is a “gonzo civics book” that takes us through the ethical foibles, pork-barrel flimflam, and Beltway bureaucracy, leaving no sacred cow unskewered and no politically correct sensitivities unscorched (Chicago Tribune).
 
“Insulting, inflammatory, profane, and absolutely great reading.” —The Washington Post Book World
 

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THE DICTATORSHIP OF BOREDOM
15
ATTACK OF THE MIDGET VOTESUCKERS
27
THE WINNERS GO TO WASHINGTON DC
34
NATIONAL BUSYBODIES
49
ONLY HUMAN IN HIS OWN IMMORTAL
66
DOING THE MOST IMPORTANT KIND OF NOTHING
75
PROTECTORS OF A BLAMELESS CITIZENRY
85
WOULD YOU KILL YOUR MOTHER TO PAVE I95?
94
POVERTY POLICY
123
VERY FOREIGN POLICY
154
DEFENSE POLICY
166
THE ORIGINAL
183
DIRT OF THE EARTH
193
SETTING THE CHICKENS TO WATCH THE HENHOUSE
200
GRAFT FOR THE MILLIONS
211
AT HOME IN THE PARLIAMENT OF WHORES
221

WHAT THE FUCK DO THEY
107

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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.

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