- Humor, Politics and government, Practical Politics, Parlementen
In 1988 the author moved to Washington to take a long look at our government and to find an answer to the question every American asks: What the hell do these guys do all day, and why does it cost so much money?
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Cool, comic, warm and ironic.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- P. J. O'Rourke
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 233
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, Vintage Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780330319911
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“What is this oozing behemoth, this fibrous tumor, this monster of power and expense hatched from the simple human desire for civic order?”
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