None of My Business (eBook)

P. J. O'Rourke (Autor)

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2018 | 1. Auflage
256 Seiten
Atlantic Books (Verlag)
978-1-61185-935-5 (ISBN)

Infos

After decades covering war and disaster, bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P. J. O'Rourke takes on his scariest subjects yet? business, investment, finance and the political chicanery behind them. Want to get rich overnight for free in 3 easy steps with no risk? Then don't buy this book. (Actually, if you believe there's a book that can do that, you shouldn't buy any books because you probably can't read.) P.J.'s approach to business, investment and finance is different. He takes the risks for you in his chapter 'How I Learned Economics by Watching People Try to Kill Each Other.' He proposes 'A Way to Raise Taxes That We'll All Love'?a 200% tax on celebrities. He offers a brief history of economic transitions before exploring the world of high-tech innovation with a chapter on 'Unnovations,' which asks, 'The Internet?whose idea was it to put all the idiots on earth in touch with each other?' He pokes fun at bitcoin, and closes with a fanciful short story about the morning that he wakes up and finds that all the world's goods and services are free! This is P.J. at his finest, a book not to be missed.

P. J. O'Rourke is the bestselling author of thirteen books, including Eat the Rich, Give War a Chance, and The CEO of the Sofa. He is a regular correspondent for the Atlantic magazine. Peace Kills and Thomas Paine's On the Wealth of Nations: A Biography were published by Atlantic Books in 2004 and 2007.

Autor

P. J. O'Rourke wrote more than twenty books on subjects as diverse as politics and cars and etiquette and economics. Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance both reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. He was a contributing editor at the Weekly Standard, H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute, a regular panellist on NPR's Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me, and editor-in-chief of the web magazine American Consequences. Long a resident of rural New England, as far away from the things he wrote about as he could get, he died in 2022 at the age of 74.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.9.2018
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
• Schlagworte: american election • breixt • Brexit • case for impeachment • Clinton • Daily Beast • DEMOCRAT • Donald Trump • election 2016 • Elections • Fake News • game of thorns • Give War a Chance • have i got news for you • Hilary Clinton • holiday in heck • Howard Jacobson • How the Hell Did this Happen? • Humour • insane clown president • it can’t happen here • jared kushner • Jeremy Clarkson • Jon Ronson • mail men • Obama • o'rourke • Parliament of Whores • P. J. O'Rourke • political humour • Political satire • Politics • Private Eye • Pussy • Putin • Republican • Satire • sean spicer • shattered • the elephant in the room • thrown under the omnibus • Trump • us election • US elections • US politics • Wall Stret • yes minister
• ISBN-10: 1-61185-935-2 / 1611859352
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61185-935-5 / 9781611859355