- Subjects
- Published
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New York, NY :
Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
[2015]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Description
- Anthology of humorous essays selected and introduced by the author himself.
Originally published in various collections, 1983-2014. - Physical Description
- xv, 844 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9780802123664
- Introduction
- Selections From ...
- Modern Manners (1983, revised edition 1989)
- What Are Manners?
- The Fundamentals of Contemporary Courtesy
- Important People
- The Bachelor Home Companion (1987, revised edition 1993)
- We Are All Bachelors Now
- How I Became a Bachelor Housewife
- Bachelor Entertaining
- Republican Party Reptile (1987)
- Myths Made Modern
- Ship of Fools
- How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink
- A Cool and Logical Analysis of the Bicycle Menace
- The King of Sandusky, Ohio
- Holidays in Hell (1988)
- A Ramble through Lebanon
- Among the Euro-Weenies
- At Sea with the America's Cup
- Seoul Brothers
- The Holyland-God's Monkey House
- Third World Driving Hints and Tips
- Parliament of Whores (1991)
- Preface
- The Mystery of Government
- The Winners Go to Washington, D.C.
- Agricultural Policy
- At Home in the Parliament of Whores
- Give War a Chance (1992)
- The Death of Communism
- Return of the Death of Communism
- Dispatches from the Gulf War
- All the Trouble in the World (1994)
- Multiculturalism
- Famine
- Environment
- Plague
- Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut (1995)
- A Few Thoughts on Humor and Humorists
- The Welsh National Combined Mud Wrestling and Spelling Bee Championship
- Fly-Fishing
- Bird Hunting
- Deep-Sea Fishing
- Golf
- Eat the Rich (1998)
- Love, Death, and Money
- Bad Capitalism
- Bad Socialism
- From Beatnik to Business Major
- How to Make Nothing from Everything
- How to Make Everything from Nothing
- Eat the Rich
- The CEO of the Sofa (2001)
- "Its a Person!"
- Kid Pro Quo
- What You Learn from Having Kids
- Summer
- 35th Anniversary of Elaine's Restaurant
- Venice vs. Vegas
- Blind (Drunk) Wine Tasting
- The Memoir
- Excuses for Republicans
- Unpublished Introduction to the 25th Anniversary Edition of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Peace Kills (2004)
- Why Americans Hate Foreign Policy
- Kosovo
- Israel
- 9/11 Diary
- Kuwait and Iraq
- On The Wealth of Nations (2007)
- An Inquiry into An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
- The Wealth of Nations, Book 1
- The Wealth of Nations, Book 2
- Driving Like Crazy (2009)
- Sgt. Dynaflo's Last Patrol
- A Better Land than This
- Reincarnation
- Big Love
- Dont Vote-It Just Encourages the Bastards (2010)
- Politics Makes Us Free-And We're Worth It
- A Digression on Happiness
- The Purgatory of Freedom and the Hell of Politics
- Taxes
- More Taxes
- Why I'm Right
- Holidays in Heck (2011)
- Introduction
- Republicans Evolving
- A Horse of a Different Color
- A Journey to ... Let's Not Go There
- The Seventy-Two-Hour Afghan Expert
- The Baby Boom (2014)
- Prologue
- In the Doldrums of Fun
- The Prelude
- Ripeness Is All
- Big Damn Messy Bundle of Joy
- Acknowledgments