Rent Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-bending Celebrating America as It Ought to Be -- An Oil Well in Each Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade

Synopsis

A New York Times bestselling author and America's most preeminent political satirist PJ O'Rourke has a past that some of his listeners may not know about — he's a longtime gearhead. The son of a car dealer from Ohio, O'Rourke has been writing about cars for Car and Driver, Automobile Magazine and Rolling Stone for over three decades. In his latest collection, Driving Like Crazy, O'Rourke celebrates cars and his love for them, and chronicles the birth and death of the automobile in America.

O'Rourke takes us on a whirlwind tour of the world's most scenic and bumpiest roads in trouble-laden cross-country treks, from a 1978 Florida-to-California escapade in a 1956 Special four-door Buick sedan to a 1983 thousand-mile effort across Mexico in the Baja 1000 to a trek through Kyrgyzstan in 2006 on the back of a Soviet Army surplus 6-wheel drive truck. For longtime fans of the celebrated humorist, the collection features a host of O'Rourke's classic pieces on driving, including How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink and his brilliant and funny piece from Rolling Stone on NASCAR and its peculiar culture.

Driving Like Crazy, which includes thirty years of O'Rourke's journalism on automobiles, and will include a number of original pieces, is a brilliant addition to the literature of cars. A collection that captures O'Rourke's passion for cars and their place in America.

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