"In his first book of essays since his 1997 bestseller, Wry Martinis, Buckley delivers a ... combination of big ideas and truly fun writing. Tackling subjects ranging from How to Teach Your Four-Year-Old to Ski to A Short History of the Bug Zapper, and The Art of Sacking to literary friendships with Joseph Heller and Christopher Hitchens, he is at once a ... storyteller, ... cultural critic, adventurous traveler, and irreverent historian"--Amazon.com.
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