California and The West

Driving Like Crazy

Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-bending, Celebrating America the Way It’s Supposed To Be – With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac … of the Federal Reserve Mowing Our Lawn

by P.J. O’Rourke

-Reviewed by Byron Perry

It may come as a surprise that P.J. O’Rourke is a full-blown car nut. Yes, aside from all the political satire and cigar-chomping snarkiness, this son of a Buick salesman has written about automobiles for over 30 years. In Driving Like Crazy, O’Rourke combines his most memorable car pieces with some …

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