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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... lives - of white have - nots in one of our most have - not states - has the power of an old - time Scottish Border ballad . It is maddening and provocative that the true believers in ' American exceptionalism ' and ersatz machismo side ...
... lives - of white have - nots in one of our most have - not states - has the power of an old - time Scottish Border ballad . It is maddening and provocative that the true believers in ' American exceptionalism ' and ersatz machismo side ...
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... lives of my working - class family members , my neighborhood , and my community had been devalued and degraded by the forces against which leftleaning people have always railed - the same forces my family and town so solidly backed in ...
... lives of my working - class family members , my neighborhood , and my community had been devalued and degraded by the forces against which leftleaning people have always railed - the same forces my family and town so solidly backed in ...
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... lives . I smoked my first cigarette here and married a poor white girl from down the street . My forebears are ... live there going through the same struggles for modest respectability in 4 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
... lives . I smoked my first cigarette here and married a poor white girl from down the street . My forebears are ... live there going through the same struggles for modest respectability in 4 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
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... lives most closely resemble media images of the middle classdo cross paths with these struggling workers , they do not often recognize them as struggling . That smiling , wise old fellow in the orange vest in the pipe department at the ...
... lives most closely resemble media images of the middle classdo cross paths with these struggling workers , they do not often recognize them as struggling . That smiling , wise old fellow in the orange vest in the pipe department at the ...
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... lives of millions over time , especially considering that many of the worst aspects of poverty stem from the intellectual bareness and brutality of the environment . I can remember my father chastising me for reading art books with ...
... lives of millions over time , especially considering that many of the worst aspects of poverty stem from the intellectual bareness and brutality of the environment . I can remember my father chastising me for reading art books with ...
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