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A conciliatory P.J. O’Rourke is not the satirist we know and love

The brilliant right-wing journalist has now reinvented himself as healer, occupying the ‘hard middle', with his bile directed principally at Trump

P.J. O’Rourke. Credit: Alamy 
issue 19 December 2020
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  • A Cry From the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land

    P.J. O’Rourke

    Grove Press, pp. 230, £16

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