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Parliament of Whores
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[TH="align: left"]Author[/TH]
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P. J. O'Rourke[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Country[/TH]
[TD]United States[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Language[/TH]
[TD]English[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Subject[/TH]
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Political satire[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Publisher[/TH]
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Atlantic Monthly Press[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"] Publication date[/TH]
[TD]May 1991[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Media type[/TH]
[TD]Print (
hardcover)[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Pages[/TH]
[TD]233pp.
(first edition)[/TD]
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ISBN[/TH]
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0-871-13455-1[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]OCLC[/TH]
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23179636[/TD]
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Dewey Decimal[/TH]
[TD]320.973/0207[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]LC Class[/TH]
[TD]JK34.O74 1991[/TD]
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Parliament of Whores is an international best-selling political humor book by
P. J. O'Rourke published by
Atlantic Monthly Press in 1991. Subtitled "A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire US Government",
Parliament is a scathing critique of the American system of governance from a
conservative perspective. The hard cover version was a #1
New York Times bestseller, sold over 150,000 copies in its first two months of release, and earned over $1 million in revenue in the same time period.[SUP]
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Parliament reached the top 5 on Canadian best seller lists.[SUP]
[2][/SUP] The paperback release in 1992 was a similar commercial success.
The book received an overwhelmingly positive critical reception.
Time Magazine called it "a riotously funny and perceptive indictment of America's political system".[SUP]
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The New York Times called it "a funnily savage attack on the political authorities of the United States".[SUP]
[4][/SUP] In a piece about its 1992 paperback release,
USA Today described it as "the anthem of this political year".[SUP]
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