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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Dispatches from America's Class War Joe Bageant. Deer Hunting with Jesus INTRODUCTION On the morning of November 2 , 2004 ,
Dispatches from America's Class War Joe Bageant. Deer Hunting with Jesus INTRODUCTION On the morning of November 2 , 2004 ,
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... to observe this nationwhere the oldest and the newest America and all the vestigial mutant stages in between exist in spittle - flecked living color . Winchester is foremost a working - class town , despite 2 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
... to observe this nationwhere the oldest and the newest America and all the vestigial mutant stages in between exist in spittle - flecked living color . Winchester is foremost a working - class town , despite 2 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
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... small local hospitals out of business and open multimillion - dollar spas and fitness centers . And in the last chapter I try to answer this question : How in the hell can it be that one part of a nation 16 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
... small local hospitals out of business and open multimillion - dollar spas and fitness centers . And in the last chapter I try to answer this question : How in the hell can it be that one part of a nation 16 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
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... nine years old , weighs almost three hundred pounds , and sings Patsy Cline nearly as well as Patsy sang Patsy . Dot can sing " Crazy " and any other Patsy song ever recorded and a few that went unrecorded 22 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
... nine years old , weighs almost three hundred pounds , and sings Patsy Cline nearly as well as Patsy sang Patsy . Dot can sing " Crazy " and any other Patsy song ever recorded and a few that went unrecorded 22 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
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