How the hell did this happen? : the election of 2016 / P.J. O'Rourke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Rourke, P. J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--United States--Election--2016--Humor.

Presidents.

Presidential candidates--United States--Humor.

Presidential candidates.

Political satire, American.

Presidents--Election.

United States.

Genre:

Humor.

Physical Description:

xiv, 216 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

Other Title:

Election of 2016

Place of Publication:

New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017.

Summary:

"No comedian could have written the joke this election cycle has been. The punch line is too ridiculous (whoever the punch line is going to be). Or, as celebrated political satirist, journalist, and diehard Republican P.J. O'Rourke put it in his endorsement of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton: "America is experiencing the most severe outbreak of mass psychosis since the Salem witch trials of 1692." In his latest book, P.J. brings his critical eye and inimitable voice to some serious risky business. How the Hell Did This Happen? begins with him diving into the pig pile of presidential candidates circa June 2015 including Jim ("who?") Webb, Scott Walker ("America's chance to have a President who gets carded every time he orders a beer"), Ted Cruz ("crazy like a fox-no, like a Fox News broadcast), Bernie Sanders ("Trump for people still living in their parents' basements"), and Donald Trump himself ("Landlord of the Flies"). P.J. eviscerates each frontrunner as he or she emerges from under the rock where they've all been living. He covers the dreadful key primaries and candidate debates, takes us through his come-to-Satan moment with Hillary, and leads the way into the Beginning of End Times in November"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The campaign begins

The abominable snowman

The horror! The horror!

A Huck so unlike Finn

Always look on the bright side of life

So much for that

The last damn Republican presidential candidate debate I'll ever watch

Say it ain't so, Joe

A better way to choose a President, Part I

The walking dead

Time to pull the plug on Ben Carson's campaign

In memoriam

Our higgledy-piggledy primary system and how it higgles our pigs

A halfhearted case for Marco Rubio

The case against Marco Rubio

Cruz control

Fashion notes

What they stand for, and can we stand it? Part I

What they stand for, and can we stand it? Part II

Paying for what we can't stand

Another attempt at paying for what we can't stand

What they stand for, and can we stand It? Part III

Letter to myself in 1968

A better way to choose a President, Part II

The last damn national political convention I'll ever watch

The Democratic national political convention

I endorse Hillary

The nowhere leadership is headed to

The campaign trail of sneers

The revolt against the elites.

Other Format:

Online version: O'Rourke, P.J., author. How the hell did this happen?

ISBN:

9780802126191

0802126197

OCLC:

951955683

Publisher Number:

99971603657