How the Hell Did This Happen? - A Cautionary Tale of American Democracy

The veteran political and satirical commentator and humorist turns his attention to the US election of 2016, covering the whole process from start to finish. A diehard Republican, he brings his critical eye and inimitable voice to some serious risky business.

About the author

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 NPR's Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me, and editor-in-chief of the web magazine American Consequences. Long a resident of rural New England, as far away from the things he wrote about as he could get, he died in 2022 at the age of 74.

Summary

An essential take on the stranger-than-fiction 2016 presidential election from a quintessential voice on American politics and culture.

Foreword

An essential take on the stranger-than-fiction 2016 presidential election from a quintessential voice on American politics and culture.

Product details

• Authors: PJ ORourke, P. J. O'Rourke, P. J. O''rourke
• Publisher: Atlantic monthly press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9781611856217
• ISBN: 978-1-61185-621-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, HUMOR / Form / Parodies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, HUMOR / Topic / Politics, Humour, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Elections & referenda, Central / national / federal government, Parodies and spoofs: non-fiction