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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... true believers in ' American exceptionalism ' and ersatz machismo side with those stepping all over them . Bageant's writing is as lyrical as Nelson Algren's , and if there's a semblance of hope , it's that he catches on with new ...
... true believers in ' American exceptionalism ' and ersatz machismo side with those stepping all over them . Bageant's writing is as lyrical as Nelson Algren's , and if there's a semblance of hope , it's that he catches on with new ...
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... true - from " whupping up " on boxing chimpanzees at carnivals to demon wrestling matches in the Holy Roller trailer courts— the names and identifying characteristics of many of the people described have been changed in order to protect ...
... true - from " whupping up " on boxing chimpanzees at carnivals to demon wrestling matches in the Holy Roller trailer courts— the names and identifying characteristics of many of the people described have been changed in order to protect ...
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... true middle class - the journalists , professionals and semiprofessionals , people in the management class , etc.are not more than one - third at best . Leaving aside all numbers , " working class " might best be defined like this : You ...
... true middle class - the journalists , professionals and semiprofessionals , people in the management class , etc.are not more than one - third at best . Leaving aside all numbers , " working class " might best be defined like this : You ...
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... true middle class , which is only about 20 percent to 30 percent of Americans , as we shall see . From that vantage point , liberals currently view working whites as angry , warmongering bigots , happy pawns of the American empire ...
... true middle class , which is only about 20 percent to 30 percent of Americans , as we shall see . From that vantage point , liberals currently view working whites as angry , warmongering bigots , happy pawns of the American empire ...
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... rub against each other . Most of the time the true middle and upper classes are scarcely aware that real working people exist . To wit : It is one helluva comment on the American class system when I can 14 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
... rub against each other . Most of the time the true middle and upper classes are scarcely aware that real working people exist . To wit : It is one helluva comment on the American class system when I can 14 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS.
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