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Name: P(atrick) J(ake) O'Rourke
Variant Name: Patrick Jake O'Rourke, P. J. O'Rourke, Patrick J. O'Rourke, P. J. ORourke
Birth Date: November 14, 1947
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of P(atrick) J(ake) O'Rourke
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P. J. (Patrick Jake) O'Rourke is a satirist-humorist who sprang from the tradition of New Journalism espoused by Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, and Hunter S. Thompson. His literary journalism abandons any pretense of objectivity and instead offers a version...


Quotations
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P. J. O’Rourke Quotes
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. Patrick Jake O'Rourke...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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O'rourke, P. J. (1947—) Summary
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In 1998, satirist P. J. O'Rourke announced his intention to write a memoir. The most serious problem with this idea, he wrote, is "that I haven't really done much. But I don't feel this should stand in my way. O. J. Simpson...
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P. J. O’Rourke Information
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Patrick Jake O'Rourke (born November 14, 1947 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American political satirist, journalist, and writer. He was educated at Miami University and Johns Hopkins University. He confesses that during his student days he was a left-leaning...


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
At Atlantic Party, Haves and Have-Nots
11/9/2007: 692 words, approx. 2 pages
Last night at a party for The Atlantic Monthly's 150th anniversary, held on the stage of the NYU student center auditorium, the aging cable-access porn star Robin Byrd was looking around the room. She saw Robert DeNiro, and locked in."Hello!" she said, touching his...
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The New York Observer
Nobody\'d5s Laughing At Al Gore\'d5s Truths
5/28/2006: 750 words, approx. 3 pages
Long before the release of An Inconvenient Truth, the new film about climate change starring Al Gore, the scientific consensus had ratified the warnings he has delivered over the past two decades. Leading business executives in the insurance, investment and even the energy industries have...
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The New York Observer
Nobody's Laughing At Al Gore's Truths
5/28/2006: 750 words, approx. 3 pages
Long before the release of An Inconvenient Truth, the new film about climate change starring Al Gore, the scientific consensus had ratified the warnings he has delivered over the past two decades. Leading business executives in the insurance, investment and even the energy industries...
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AP News
Wolfe left longtime publisher over money
1/4/2008: 836 words, approx. 3 pages
Roger Straus, the late founder and longtime leader of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, regarded his company as a family and liked to boast that "We publish authors, not books."And what authors: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Susan Sontag, Bernard Malamud, Grace Paley, Derek Walcott, all of whom...
 


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