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The man who went to Hell and back – for a laugh

A review of The Baby Boom, by P.J.O’Rourke. Like all the best memoirs, Baby Boom stirs suppressed memories in the reader

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

The Baby Boom P.J.O’Rourke

Grove Press, pp.288, £16.99, ISBN: 9781011856118

Since the passing of Auberon Waugh, there haven’t been many really successful right-wing comedians. The Mayor of London is one. Another is the American journalist and wit P.J. O’Rourke.

The alliterative title of The Baby Boom, his 20th book, essentially sums up its author’s style, his childlike boisterousness, his resonant infantilism.

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