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 |
From inside the book
Niđurstöđur 1 - 5 af 17
Síđa 12
... Social Security or worker's comp or health insurance for employees . Instead , they contract with him , and he assumes the costs of those programs , and takes orders from a manager and shuffles through the farce that he is one of ...
... Social Security or worker's comp or health insurance for employees . Instead , they contract with him , and he assumes the costs of those programs , and takes orders from a manager and shuffles through the farce that he is one of ...
Síđa 14
... Social Security program , which eventually will be slashed and privatized by some backdoor method by the ownership class in order to boost ( in a wonderfully self - serving loop ) the stock market , which serves primarily the upper ...
... Social Security program , which eventually will be slashed and privatized by some backdoor method by the ownership class in order to boost ( in a wonderfully self - serving loop ) the stock market , which serves primarily the upper ...
Síđa 16
... Social Security dollars and how fake nonprofit hospitals dominate American health care , failing to help uninsured and low - income sick people while spending billions to put small local hospitals out of business and open multimillion ...
... Social Security dollars and how fake nonprofit hospitals dominate American health care , failing to help uninsured and low - income sick people while spending billions to put small local hospitals out of business and open multimillion ...
Síđa 24
... social class . She has cleaned houses and waited tables and paid into Social Security all her life . But for the past three years Dottie has been unable to work because of her health . Dot's congestive heart problems are such that she ...
... social class . She has cleaned houses and waited tables and paid into Social Security all her life . But for the past three years Dottie has been unable to work because of her health . Dot's congestive heart problems are such that she ...
Síđa 27
Ţú hefur náđ skođunarhámarki fyrir ţessa bók.
Ţú hefur náđ skođunarhámarki fyrir ţessa bók.
Ađrar útgáfur - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abu Ghraib Ameri American antigun Bageant believe blood Borderer boys Brother Mike bucks Bush called Charles Graner Christian church conservative corporate culture damned deer Democrats demons Dink doctors Dottie folks Fort Ashby fundamentalist fundamentalist Christian going gun control heartland hell high school hologram hospital hunting Iraq Jesus kids kill labor Laurita lawyers liberal lives look Lynndie Lynndie England Meanwhile middle class million modular home mortgage Nance neoconservative never Newell Rubbermaid numbers percent person Pine Bush plastic political poor Pootie redneck Republican Romney Royal Lunch Rubbermaid Ruth says Scots Scots-Irish Second Amendment Shenandoah Social Security streets talk talk radio television tell thing tion town trailer truck Ulster Ulster Scots urban Virginia vote Wal-Mart watch Winchester Winchester Medical Center workers working-class