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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... liberalism and institutional oppression with the ferocity of a human Sawzall . " -Houston Chronicle " This ... liberal who wants to create meaningful political change . " -Seattle Stranger " Deer Hunting with Jesus is one of ...
... liberalism and institutional oppression with the ferocity of a human Sawzall . " -Houston Chronicle " This ... liberal who wants to create meaningful political change . " -Seattle Stranger " Deer Hunting with Jesus is one of ...
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... liberal America where a man or woman can buy a copy of The Nation without specialordering it , Democrats sank into ... liberals have had time to contemplate what they see as the deeply uncultured mob that trounced them in 2004 ...
... liberal America where a man or woman can buy a copy of The Nation without specialordering it , Democrats sank into ... liberals have had time to contemplate what they see as the deeply uncultured mob that trounced them in 2004 ...
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... liberals will ever find themselves sucking down canned beer at the local dirt track or listening to the preacher explain the infallibility of the Bible on every known topic from biology to the designated - hitter rule or attending ...
... liberals will ever find themselves sucking down canned beer at the local dirt track or listening to the preacher explain the infallibility of the Bible on every known topic from biology to the designated - hitter rule or attending ...
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... liberals - the world that blindsided them in November 2004 and the one they will need to 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 ...
... liberals - the world that blindsided them in November 2004 and the one they will need to 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 ...
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... liberals at whom I so often poke fun . But a person's roots do not disappear just because he or she managed to narrowly cross the class lines that the American national story line claims do not exist . And what I see is that my people ...
... liberals at whom I so often poke fun . But a person's roots do not disappear just because he or she managed to narrowly cross the class lines that the American national story line claims do not exist . And what I see is that my people ...
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