{"product_id":"republican-party-reptile-by-p-j-orourke","title":"'Republican Party Reptile' by P. J. O'Rourke","description":"\u003ch4\u003eNot for everyone! \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"47\" data-end=\"503\"\u003eA collection of essays that turns late–Cold War American politics into a demolition site. O’Rourke writes from inside the machinery—campaign trails, conventions, policy disasters—and reports back with a mix of satire and direct observation that refuses to separate ideology from its consequences. Reagan-era optimism, military adventurism, and free-market evangelism are all put in the cooker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"505\" data-end=\"887\"\u003eThe book moves quickly across subjects—war, wealth, bureaucracy, media—tracking how political language inflates, distorts, and ultimately conceals the systems it claims to describe. O’Rourke’s position is deliberately unstable: participant, critic, and opportunist at once. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"889\" data-end=\"1147\"\u003eThe essays read now as both artefact and warning—less about a specific party than about the conditions that allow spectacle to pass for governance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"889\" data-end=\"1147\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1162\" data-end=\"1186\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePicador paperback, first British edition (1987). Moderate shelf wear with visible creasing to covers and spine; edge wear and small scuffs present. Internally clean and intact with no inscriptions. Good condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44556005376083,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext_53.png?v=1777613452","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/republican-party-reptile-by-p-j-orourke","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}