This from the jacket of P.J. O’Rourke’s “Driving Like Crazy”:
“But pity the poor American car when congress and the White House get through with it—a light-weight vehicle with a small carbon footprint, using alternative energy and renewable resources to operate in a sustainable way. When I was a kid we called it a Schwinn.”
Elsewhere on the cover: ” Thirty years of vehicular hel=bending celebrating Americana the way it’s supposed to be -with an oil well in every backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in every carport, and the chairman of the Federal Reserve mowing our lawn.”
And that is just the cover!
“Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you’re half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose and a teenage lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat over while you’re going a hundred miles an hour down a suburban side street.”
His parents and grandparent operated a Buick dealership in Ohio. He’s a conservative.
Title of the first chapter: How to Drive Fast While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink.
Fun Read.
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