Give War a Chance
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Give War a Chance

Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

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eBook - ePub

Give War a Chance

Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

About this book

The #1 New York Times bestseller from "one of America's most hilarious and provocative writers . . . a volatile brew of one-liners and vitriol" ( Time).
 
Renowned for his cranky conservative humor, P. J. O'Rourke runs hilariously amok in this book, tackling the death of communism; his frustration with sanctimonious liberals; and Saddam Hussein in a series of classic dispatches from his coverage of the 1991 Gulf War.
 
On Kuwait City after the war, he comments, "It looked like all the worst rock bands in the world had stayed there at the same time." On Saddam Hussein, O'Rourke muses: "He's got chemical weapons filled with . . . with . . . chemicals. Maybe he's got The Bomb. And missiles that can reach Riyadh, Tel Aviv, Spokane. Stock up on nonperishable foodstuffs. Grab those Diet Coke cans you were supposed to take to the recycling center and fill them with home heating oil. Bury the Hummel figurines in the yard. We're all going to die. Details at eleven." And on the plague of celebrity culture, he notes: "You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity."
 
Mordant and utterly irreverent, this is a modern classic from one of our great political satirists, described by Christopher Buckley as being "like S. J. Perelman on acid."
 
"Mocking on the surface but serious beneath . . . When it comes to scouting the world for world-class absurdities, O'Rourke is the right man for the job." — Los Angeles Times Book Review
 
"The funniest writer in America." — The Wall Street Journal

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Information

Publisher
Grove Press
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9780802140319
eBook ISBN
9781555847128
Subtopic
Political History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  5. CONTENTS
  6. INTRODUCTION Hunting the Virtuous— and How to Clean and Skin Them
  7. THE BIRTH,AND SOME OF THE FREEDOM THE AFTERBIRTH,OF FREEDOM
  8. THE DEATH OF COMMUNISM Berlin, November 1989
  9. SPRINGTIME FOR GORBACHEV Moscow, May 1988
  10. THE PIECE OF IRELAND THAT PASSETH ALL UNDERSTANDING Ulster, May 1988
  11. DEMOCRACY IN ITS DIAPERS Paraguay, April 1989
  12. RETURN OF THE DEATH OF COMMUNISM Nicaragua, February 1990
  13. RETURN OF THE DEATH OF COMMUNISM, PART III—THE SAGA CONTINUES Kiev and Tibilisi, September 1991
  14. SECOND THOUGHTS
  15. A SERIOUS PROBLEM
  16. SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT THE 1960s
  17. FIDDLING WHILE AFRICA STARVES
  18. THE TWO-THOUSAND-YEAR-OLD U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY EXPERT
  19. STUDYING FOR OUR DRUG TEST
  20. AN ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF AUTOMOBILES VS. PEDESTRIANS
  21. A CALL FOR A NEW McCARTHYISM
  22. NOTES TOWARD A BLACKLIST FOR THE 1990s
  23. SEX WITH DR. RUTH
  24. THE DEEP THOUGHTS OF LEE IACOCCA
  25. THE VERY DEEP THOUGHTS OF JIMMY AND ROSALYNN CARTER
  26. MORDRED HAD A POINT—CAMELOT REVISITED
  27. GIVE WAR A CHANCE Dispatches from the Gulf War
  28. JORDAN August 1990
  29. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES September 1990
  30. “SOMEWHERE IN EASTERN SAUDI ARABIA” January 1991
  31. GULF DIARY January 28 through February 8, 1991
  32. AT THE FRONT Early February 1991
  33. GULF DIARY February 11 through February 25,1991
  34. RIYADH AND THE DESERT Late February 1991
  35. MISSILE ATTACK ON DHAHRAN February IS, 1991
  36. KUWAIT CITY March 1991