Age and guile beat youth, innocence, and a bad haircut
Subtitle: twenty-five years of P.J. O'Rourke.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: O'Rourke, P. J; Journalists -- United States -- Biography
Description: "No time left for pamphleting and leafleting, picketing and petitioning, talking and walking around. Time to TRASH THE STATE!" Abbie Hoffman? Huey Newton? No, it's P. J. O'Rourke, circa 1970. Now America's most provocative (and conservative) satirist - O'Rourke was at one time a raving pinko, with the scab on his bleeding heart to prove it.

Through twenty-five years of his writing, Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut guides us on the journey that has taken O'Rourke from the lighthearted fun of the revolutionary barricades to the serious business of the nineteenth hole.
Table of contents: title: Juvenilia delinquent : "underground" press, 1970-1972; title: The truth about the sixties and other fiction; title: Days of wage : National lampoon, 1971-1981; title: Drives to nowhere : automotive journalism; title: Essays, prefaces, speeches, reviews, and things jotted on napkins; title: Current and recurrent events.; title: Bad sports.