Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class WarCrown, 24. jún. 2008 - 288 síður 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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... it's that he catches on with new readers thanks to the alternative media . ” -Studs Terkel " This book is righteous , self - righteous , exhilarating , and aggravating . By God , it's a raging , hilarious , and profane love song to the ...
... it's that he catches on with new readers thanks to the alternative media . ” -Studs Terkel " This book is righteous , self - righteous , exhilarating , and aggravating . By God , it's a raging , hilarious , and profane love song to the ...
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... it's getting harder . Two in five residents of the North End do not have a high school diploma . Here , nearly everyone over fifty has serious health problems , credit ratings rarely top 500 , and alcohol , Jesus , and overeating are ...
... it's getting harder . Two in five residents of the North End do not have a high school diploma . Here , nearly everyone over fifty has serious health problems , credit ratings rarely top 500 , and alcohol , Jesus , and overeating are ...
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... it's every man for himself . Solidarity be damned . The much - needed eight bucks comes first . Meanwhile , if you believe the national story line , all these nameless competing working folks constitute some great American middle class ...
... it's every man for himself . Solidarity be damned . The much - needed eight bucks comes first . Meanwhile , if you believe the national story line , all these nameless competing working folks constitute some great American middle class ...
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... its streets and waiting on its tables . As a perfectly decent liberal New York City editor told me : " It is as if your people were some sort of exotic , as if you were from Yemen or something . " I don't mean to reinforce the false ...
... its streets and waiting on its tables . As a perfectly decent liberal New York City editor told me : " It is as if your people were some sort of exotic , as if you were from Yemen or something . " I don't mean to reinforce the false ...
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... it's on to meet some local employees of Rubbermaid and take a hard look at the ways globalism plays out for people in this town . In Chapter 3 we buy a mobile home and in the next chapter we visit the heartland gun culture that few gun ...
... it's on to meet some local employees of Rubbermaid and take a hard look at the ways globalism plays out for people in this town . In Chapter 3 we buy a mobile home and in the next chapter we visit the heartland gun culture that few gun ...
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