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

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

No comedian could have written the joke this election cycle has been. The punch line is too ridiculous (whoever the punch line is going to be). Celebrated political satirist, journalist, and diehard Republican P.J. O'Rourke brings his critical eye and inimitable voice to some serious risky business.

How The Hell Did This Happen? covers the whole election process from the pig pile of presidential candidates circa June 2015, the dreadful key primaries and candidate debates through his come-to-Satan moment with Hillary - 'She's the second worst thing that could happen to our nation. I endorse her.' - to the Beginning of End Times in November.

How The Hell Did This Happen? answers the key question of the 2016 presidential election: Should we laugh or should we cry or should we hurl? (They are not mutually exclusive.)

Foreword

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

Product details

• Authors: P. J. O'Rourke
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9781611855227
• ISBN: 978-1-61185-522-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 375 g
• Subjects: 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