"I give you the example of spittoons"

P J O’Rourke selects the top five books of political satire for FiveBooks and is interviewed about each of them. If you know P J O'Rourke, no slouch at political satire himself, you may well enjoy his comments. These are the five he chose:

• Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
• Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
• George Orwell, Animal Farm
• George Orwell, 1984
• Evelyn Waugh, Put Out More Flags

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