Thrown Under the Omnibus by O'Rourke, P.J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover ALSO BY P. J. O’ROURKE Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Contents Introduction Modern Manners (1983, revised edition 1989)

What Are Manners? The Fundamentals of Contemporary Courtesy Important People

The Bachelor Home Companion (1987, revised edition 1993)

We Are All Bachelors Now How I Became a Bachelor Housewife Bachelor Entertaining

Republican Party Reptile (1987)

Myths Made Modern Ship of Fools How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink A Cool and Logical Analysis of the Bicycle Menace The King of Sandusky, Ohio

Holidays in Hell (1988)

A Ramble through Lebanon Among the Euro-Weenies At Sea with the America’s Cup Seoul Brothers December The Holyland—God’s Monkey House Third World Driving Hints and Tips

Parliament of Whores (1991)

Preface The Mystery of Government The Winners Go to Washington, D.C. Agricultural Policy At Home in the Parliament of Whores

Give War a Chance (1992)

The Death of Communism Return of the Death of Communism Dispatches from the Gulf War

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

Multiculturalism Famine Environment Plague

Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut (1995)

A Few Thoughts on Humor and Humorists The Welsh National Combined Mud Wrestling and Spelling Bee Championship Fly-Fishing Bird Hunting Deep-Sea Fishing Golf

Eat the Rich (1998)

Love, Death, and Money Bad Capitalism Bad Socialism From Beatnik to Business Major How to Make Nothing from Everything How to Make Everything from Nothing Eat the Rich

The CEO of the Sofa (2001)

“It’s a Person!” Kid Pro Quo What You Learn from Having Kids Summer 35th Anniversary of Elaine’s Restaurant Venice vs. Vegas Blind (Drunk) Wine Tasting The Memoir Excuses for Republicans Unpublished Introduction to the 25th Anniversary Edition of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vagas

Peace Kills (2004)

Why Americans Hate Foreign Policy Kosovo Israel 9/11 Diary Kuwait and Iraq

On the Wealth of Nations (2007)

An Inquiry into An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations The Wealth of Nations, Book 1 The Wealth of Nations, Book 2

Driving Like Crazy (2009)

Sgt. Dynaflo’s Last Patrol A Better Land than This Reincarnation Big Love

Don’t Vote—It Just Encourages the Bastards (2010)

Politics Makes Us Free—and We’re Worth It A Digression on Happiness The Purgatory of Freedom and the Hell of Politics Taxes More Taxes Why I’m Right

Holidays in Heck (2011)

Introduction Republicans Evolving A Horse of a Different Color A Journey to … Let’s Not Go There The Seventy-Two-Hour Afghan Expert

The Baby Boom (2014)

Prologue In the Doldrums of Fun The Prelude Ripeness Is All Big Damn Messy Bundle of Joy

Acknowledgments Back Cover