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Also by P.J. O'Rourke:

The Baby Boom, January 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Holidays In Heck, November 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
Don't Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards, September 2010
Hardcover
Driving Like Crazy, June 2009
Hardcover
On The Wealth of Nations, December 2006
Hardcover

THE BABY BOOM
By: P.J. O'Rourke

How It Got That Way (And It Wasn?t My Fault) (And I?ll Never Do It Again)

Grove Press
January 2014
On Sale: January 7, 2014
272 pages
ISBN: 0802121977
EAN: 9780802121974
Kindle: B00ET7PK46
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir

P.J. O’Rourke began writing funny things in 1960s “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.

Now O’Rourke, born at the peak of the Baby Boom, turns his keen eye on himself and his 75 million accomplices in making America what it is today. With laughter as an analytical tool, he uses his own very average, if sometimes uproarious experiences as a key to his exceptional age cohort. He writes about the way the post-war generation somehow came of age by never quite growing up and created a better society by turning society upside down.

THE BABY BOOM: How it Got That Way… And It Wasn’t My Fault… And I’ll Never Do It Again is at once a social history, a group memoir of collectively impaired memory, a hilarious attempt to understand his generation’s messy hilarity, and a celebration of the mess the Baby Boom has made.

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Tavis Smiley - February 17, 2014