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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... labor . He is working solely to purchase heart medicine and the private insurance he must have if he doesn't want to lose to hospital bills the rundown bungalow he and his wife bought in 1964 - the one that is now in such a bad ...
... labor . He is working solely to purchase heart medicine and the private insurance he must have if he doesn't want to lose to hospital bills the rundown bungalow he and his wife bought in 1964 - the one that is now in such a bad ...
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... labor . If you define " working class " in terms of power - bosses who have it and workers who don't - at least 60 percent of America is working class , and the true middle class - the journalists , professionals and semiprofessionals ...
... labor . If you define " working class " in terms of power - bosses who have it and workers who don't - at least 60 percent of America is working class , and the true middle class - the journalists , professionals and semiprofessionals ...
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... labor in the antiunion regions of this country , if for no other reason than to navigate the complex laws designed to thwart unions . But outsiders - they used to be called agitators - bring something else with them : They bring ...
... labor in the antiunion regions of this country , if for no other reason than to navigate the complex laws designed to thwart unions . But outsiders - they used to be called agitators - bring something else with them : They bring ...
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... labor and nursing home gulags that nobody is talking about these days , where local karaoke singer Dottie ends up . This opens a can of worms about how married women who work are cheated out of their Social Security dollars and how fake ...
... labor and nursing home gulags that nobody is talking about these days , where local karaoke singer Dottie ends up . This opens a can of worms about how married women who work are cheated out of their Social Security dollars and how fake ...
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