Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class WarCrown, 24. jún. 2008 - 288 síđur Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war. By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks." Deer Hunting with Jesus is Joe Bageant’s report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia. Like countless American small towns, it is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. Two in five of the people in his old neighborhood do not have high school diplomas or health care. Alcohol, overeating, and Jesus are the preferred avenues of escape. He writes of: • His childhood friends who work at factory jobs that are constantly on the verge of being outsourced • The mortgage and credit card rackets that saddle the working poor with debt • The ubiquitous gun culture—and why the left doesn’ t get it • Scots Irish culture and how it played out in the young life of Lynddie England |
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... IRAQ 7 An Authorized Place to Die THE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ON LIFE SUPPORT 8 American Hologram THE APOCALYPSE WILL BE TELEVISED ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1 19 51 97 117 159 195 221 247 269 Deer Hunting with Jesus INTRODUCTION On the ...
... IRAQ 7 An Authorized Place to Die THE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ON LIFE SUPPORT 8 American Hologram THE APOCALYPSE WILL BE TELEVISED ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1 19 51 97 117 159 195 221 247 269 Deer Hunting with Jesus INTRODUCTION On the ...
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... Iraq or France on a mapassuming they even own an atlas . Few educated liberals will ever find themselves sucking down canned beer at the local dirt track or listening to the preacher explain the infallibility of the Bible on every known ...
... Iraq or France on a mapassuming they even own an atlas . Few educated liberals will ever find themselves sucking down canned beer at the local dirt track or listening to the preacher explain the infallibility of the Bible on every known ...
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... Iraq , who are two paydays away from homelessness yet in their pride cling to the notion that they are middle - class Americans . In what might be viewed as a series of closely linked essays , we start off with a night at Royal ...
... Iraq , who are two paydays away from homelessness yet in their pride cling to the notion that they are middle - class Americans . In what might be viewed as a series of closely linked essays , we start off with a night at Royal ...
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... Iraq , having their guns and bodies blessed by attending clergy as they go forward to scrub yet another nuisance from the path of democracy and righteousness . To understand why they believe God might want such a thing done , you are ...
... Iraq , having their guns and bodies blessed by attending clergy as they go forward to scrub yet another nuisance from the path of democracy and righteousness . To understand why they believe God might want such a thing done , you are ...
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