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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... come to understand if they are ever to be politically relevant again . By what authority am I entitled to rant in these pages ? None really , other than being the native son of a working America gone downhill . That realization came in ...
... come to understand if they are ever to be politically relevant again . By what authority am I entitled to rant in these pages ? None really , other than being the native son of a working America gone downhill . That realization came in ...
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... telling the clerk how her church rallied to buy her and Eddie a secondhand truck after theirs was repossessed : " It needs a spare tire , but we can come up with that . " " Praises be to Him ! " exclaims the clerk 6 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
... telling the clerk how her church rallied to buy her and Eddie a secondhand truck after theirs was repossessed : " It needs a spare tire , but we can come up with that . " " Praises be to Him ! " exclaims the clerk 6 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
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... come down with a five - piece band and personally delivered that 1990 Toyota himself . Obviously they are all born - again . The wife grabs up her purchases , a sixer of Diet Pepsi , a carton of Little Debbie cakes , then moves on ...
... come down with a five - piece band and personally delivered that 1990 Toyota himself . Obviously they are all born - again . The wife grabs up her purchases , a sixer of Diet Pepsi , a carton of Little Debbie cakes , then moves on ...
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... comes first . Meanwhile , if you believe the national story line , all these nameless competing working folks constitute some great American middle class . But the fact is , we are a working - class country . If we define " working ...
... comes first . Meanwhile , if you believe the national story line , all these nameless competing working folks constitute some great American middle class . But the fact is , we are a working - class country . If we define " working ...
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... come back down and that Dink won a hundred dollars . I don't know . I wasn't there to see it because my good Christian ... comes to heart and feeling , the best in town is a woman named Dottie . Dot is fifty - nine years old , weighs ...
... come back down and that Dink won a hundred dollars . I don't know . I wasn't there to see it because my good Christian ... comes to heart and feeling , the best in town is a woman named Dottie . Dot is fifty - nine years old , weighs ...
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