Republican Party Reptile

About P. J. O'Rourke

P. J. O''''Rourke was born and raised in Ohio. He began writing in the 1960s for ''''underground'''' newspapers became editor-in-chief of National Lampoon then spent 20 years reporting for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly as the world''''s only trouble-spot humorist going to wars riots rebellions and other ''''Holidays in Hell'''' in more than 40 countries. He is a number one New York Times bestseller and has written sixteen books on subjects as diverse as politics and cars and etiquette and economics. He is a contributing editor at The Weekly Standard H. L. Mencken fellow at the Cato Institute a member of the editorial board of World Affairs and a regular panelist on NPR''''s Wait_ Wait_ Don''''t Tell Me. He lives with his family in rural New England as far away from the things he writes about as he can get.