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 Escalade in Every Carport, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Mowing Our Lawn is a 2009 book by

P. J. O'Rourke Patrick Jake O'Rourke (November 14, 1947 – February 15, 2022) was an American author, journalist, and political satirist who wrote twenty-two books on subjects as diverse as politics, cars, etiquette, and economics. '' Parliament of Whores'' ...

about the automobile. Its chapters include ''The End of the American Car'', ''The Rolling Organ Donors Motorcycle Club'', ''Getting Wrecked'', ''The Geezers Grand Prix'', and ''Call for a New National Park''. O'Rourke uses wit to recount his childhood growing up in an automobile dominated family. He recounts his adventures driving cross country in the Baja, the American West and the

Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent is a physiographic region of Asia below the Himalayas which projects into the Indian Ocean between the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Arabian Sea to the west. It is now divided between Bangladesh, India, and Pakista ...

. In the final chapter he comments on the present state of the

American auto industry In the United States, the automotive industry began in the 1890s and, as a result of the size of the domestic market and the use of mass production, rapidly evolved into the largest in the world. The United States was the first country in t ...

. In the Introduction O'Rourke calls his book "a collection of car journalism from 1977 to the present, a sort of social history...".

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Presentation by O'Rourke on ''Driving Like Crazy'', June 13, 2009
{{P.J. O'Rourke 2009 non-fiction books Books about cars Atlantic Monthly Press books