Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer - Softcover

O'Rourke, P. J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802140319 ISBN 13: 9780802140319

Publisher: Grove Press, 2003

Synopsis

In the spirit of his savagely funny and national best-seller Parliament of Whores, Give War a Chance is P. J. O'Rourke's number one New York Times best-selling follow-up. O'Rourke runs hilariously amok by tackling the death of Communism, sanctimonious liberals, and America's perennial bad guy Saddam Hussein in a series of classic dispatches from his coverage of the 1991 Gulf War. Here is our most mordant and unnervingly funny political satirist on: Kuwait City after the Gulf War: "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 ... 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 up with home heating oil. Bury the Hummel figurines in the yard. We're all going to die. Details at eleven."

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

does for the rest of the world--and a few select Americans--what he did for the US government in Parliament of Whores. 2 cassettes.

Review:

"Whatever your political persuasion, you would have to be totally humorless not to feel like chuckling when he starts hacking away."

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0802140319
• ISBN 13: 9780802140319
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256