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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... The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven " Should be required reading for any progressive liberal who wants to create meaningful political change . " -Seattle Stranger " Deer Hunting with Jesus is one of those rare.
... The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven " Should be required reading for any progressive liberal who wants to create meaningful political change . " -Seattle Stranger " Deer Hunting with Jesus is one of those rare.
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... mob that trounced them in 2004. They have watched panel discussions on PBS . They have argued about where political strategy went wrong . But the one thing the thinking left and urban liberals have not done INTRODUCTION.
... mob that trounced them in 2004. They have watched panel discussions on PBS . They have argued about where political strategy went wrong . But the one thing the thinking left and urban liberals have not done INTRODUCTION.
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... politicians used to call people like the man in the orange vest the " traditional working class . " They were the ones who came home from the Korean War and proudly built all those 1,100 - square - foot faux - Cape Cod aluminum - sided ...
... politicians used to call people like the man in the orange vest the " traditional working class . " They were the ones who came home from the Korean War and proudly built all those 1,100 - square - foot faux - Cape Cod aluminum - sided ...
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... political left supported these workers , stood on the lines taking beatings at the plant gates alongside them . Now there is practically no labor movement , and large numbers on the left are comfortably ensconced in the true middle ...
... political left supported these workers , stood on the lines taking beatings at the plant gates alongside them . Now there is practically no labor movement , and large numbers on the left are comfortably ensconced in the true middle ...
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... political classes . But Patsy , who took shit from no one and knew cuss words that would make a Comanche blush and , well , she was one of us . Tough and profane . ( Cussing is a form of punctuation to us . ) Patsy grew up on our side ...
... political classes . But Patsy , who took shit from no one and knew cuss words that would make a Comanche blush and , well , she was one of us . Tough and profane . ( Cussing is a form of punctuation to us . ) Patsy grew up on our side ...
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