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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
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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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