{"product_id":"9780802191403","title":"Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader","description":"P.J. O’Rourke has had a prolific career as one of America’s most celebrated humorists. But that career almost didn’t happen. As he tells it, “I began to write for pay in the spring of 1970. To tell the truth I didn’t even mean to be a writer, I meant to be a race car driver, but I didn’t have a race car.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFortunately for us, he had to settle for writing. From his early pieces for the \u003ci\u003eNational Lampoon\u003c\/i\u003e, through his classic reporting as \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone’s\u003c\/i\u003e International Affairs editor in the 80s and 90s, and his brilliant, inimitable political journalism and analysis, P.J. has been entertaining and provoking readers with high octane prose, a gonzo Republican attitude and a rare ability to make you laugh out loud. Chris Buckley once described his work as “S.J. Perlman on acid” and when Penguin first published its \u003ci\u003eDictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations\u003c\/i\u003e PJ had more entries than any living writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the first time \u003ci\u003eThrown Under the Omnibus\u003c\/i\u003e brings together his funniest, most outrageous, most controversial and most loved pieces in the definitive P.J. reader. Handpicked and introduced by the humorist himself, \u003ci\u003eThrown Under the Omnibus\u003c\/i\u003e is the essential P.J. O’Rourke anthology.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127948591344,"sku":"9780802191403","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802191403_p0.jpg?v=1763665111","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802191403","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}