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Title	:	Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
Author	:	P.J. O'Rourke
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	January 7th 2003 by Grove Press (first published May 30th 1991)
Categories	:	Humor. Politics. Nonfiction. History

Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

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Called "an everyman's guide to Washington" (The New York Times), P. J. O'Rourke's savagely funny and national best-seller Parliament of Whores has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American political system. Originally written at the end of the Reagan era, this new edition includes an extensive foreword by the renowned political writer Andrew Ferguson -- showing us that although the names and the players have changed, the game is still the same. Parliament of Whores is an exuberant, broken-field run through the ethical foibles, pork-barrel flimflam, and bureaucratic bullrorfle inside the Beltway that leaves no sacred cow unskewered and no politically correct sensitivities unscorched.

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Original Title:	Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
ISBN:	0802139701 (ISBN13: 9780802139702)
Edition Language:	English

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Very funny, though not as much as the earlier ones.

I prefer to call them a parliament of street walkers or hookers.. or even "strawberry ho's" or for that matter escorts that are not in it for the money they just like to fuck. i call the senate the "john" the supreme court the "pimp" and the congress the happy hooker.. but then again i read this piece of literary trash when i was working on wall street in new york whiled i was a certified financial advisor for CNA insurance and underwriters my client was john k weber ... now john k weber is a

This humorus look at government is still accurate today. O'Rourke uses statistics and wit to highlight some of the disfunction in government. Readers will be tempted to stop after getting the point of the book. However, the visit to his small home town for their annual city council meeting is worth pushing through to the end.It seems that a person could pick and choose which chapters to read, While the author is conservative, he goes after both parties with equal vigor. It is a fun read.

Congress for Dummies29 January 2012 I remember seeing this book in my local library, and thinking that the title was quite apt, borrowed it and read it. At this time in my life I was pretty cynical about government but in that generally uneducated type of way where we look at the politicians, think 'they really don't care about us' and label them all as jerks. I also remember that at time as I was living in a swing seat and there was an election coming up and I kept on receiving letters from

I gave this book as a Christmas gift to my brother many years ago, and shortly thereafter received a genuinely irritated phone call from his wife: "He reads the damn thing in bed and wakes me up laughing so hard!" This book will explain how Washington politics works. Which, as the author puts it, is "often complicated by the fact that it doesn't." So the book explains how Washington fails us, too.The most amazing thing about this book is that, between the always hilarious and frequently

I may not completely agree with O'Rourke's politics, but he is outstandingly funny. This sharp wit is merciless in his taunting of almost every institution in America, even making jokes about the Supreme Court, the Disability Act, and the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It's safe to say you are a stickler for political correctness, this is not a book for you. O'Rourke is also lovely in that he's conservative, but refreshingly thoughtful and moderate about the world around him. Much of the essay is