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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... HEARTLAND AMERICA 5 The Covert Kingdom THEY PLEAD UPON THE BLOOD OF JESUS FOR A THEOCRATIC STATE 6 The Ballad of Lynddie England ONE FOOT IN ULSTER , THE OTHER IN IRAQ 7 An Authorized Place to Die THE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ON LIFE ...
... HEARTLAND AMERICA 5 The Covert Kingdom THEY PLEAD UPON THE BLOOD OF JESUS FOR A THEOCRATIC STATE 6 The Ballad of Lynddie England ONE FOOT IN ULSTER , THE OTHER IN IRAQ 7 An Authorized Place to Die THE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ON LIFE ...
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... heartland , the iconographic one they'd seen on television and in magazines , the one bright with church spires , grange halls , stock - car races , and community heritage festivals . And why had the working class so plainly voted ...
... heartland , the iconographic one they'd seen on television and in magazines , the one bright with church spires , grange halls , stock - car races , and community heritage festivals . And why had the working class so plainly voted ...
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... heartland " ( all the stuff between the big cities ) exists on a continuum ranging from complete insecurity to the not - quite - complete insecurity of having a decent but endangered job . It is a continuum extending from the apathy of ...
... heartland " ( all the stuff between the big cities ) exists on a continuum ranging from complete insecurity to the not - quite - complete insecurity of having a decent but endangered job . It is a continuum extending from the apathy of ...
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... heartland gun culture that few gun control advocates ever set foot in . After our get - together with the inhabitants of the gun culture , it becomes apparent why the antigun forces in America can never win . These Americans love their ...
... heartland gun culture that few gun control advocates ever set foot in . After our get - together with the inhabitants of the gun culture , it becomes apparent why the antigun forces in America can never win . These Americans love their ...
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