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The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way...And It Wasn´t My Fault...And I´ll Never Do It Again
P. J. O´rourke
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Description for The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way...And It Wasn´t My Fault...And I´ll Never Do It Again
Hardback. A hilarious look at the aging baby boomer generation from the author the Spectator labelled 'what happens when America does Grumpy Old Men'. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 508.
A hilarious look at the aging baby boomer generation from the author the Spectator labelled 'what happens when America does Grumpy Old Men'.
The Baby Boom - over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said with a straight face, 'We are the world.'
What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? Ask the generation responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall and their knickers. Who put their faith in the Kyoto Accord and disco. Who dropped out of the capitalist system and popped back again in time to cause ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781611856118
SKU
V9781611856118
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About P. J. O´rourke
P. J. O'Rourke wrote more than twenty books on subjects as diverse as politics and cars and etiquette and economics. Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance both reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. He was a contributing editor at the Weekly Standard, H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute, a regular panellist on ... Read more
Reviews for The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way...And It Wasn´t My Fault...And I´ll Never Do It Again
P.J. O'Rourke's Baby Boom may just be his best book ever. Teems with heart and humor
much of it laugh out loud, or as the post-boomers would say, LOL
as well as with his trademark brilliant social commentary. A terrific American memoir, in tone a beguiling mix of Jean Shepherd and "Animal House." In fact, ... Read more
much of it laugh out loud, or as the post-boomers would say, LOL
as well as with his trademark brilliant social commentary. A terrific American memoir, in tone a beguiling mix of Jean Shepherd and "Animal House." In fact, ... Read more