Republican Party Reptile
by P. J. O’Rourke
P.J. O’Rourke’s 1987 collection of 21 articles, “written from a conservative Republican point of view” but intended to be funny. “‘Funny Republican’ is an oxymoron in the public mind,” he writes in the introduction. “Sense of humor and conservatism are not supposed to go together.” O’Rourke would spend this book, and the rest of his writing career, trying to prove that oxymoron wrong.
