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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... working class America like no one else . " -HOWARD ZINN , author of A People's History of the United States DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS FROM DISPATCHES AMERICA'S CLASS WAR Coors LIGHT NO SNIVELING JOE BAGEANT MORE PRAISE FOR Deer Hunting ...
... working class America like no one else . " -HOWARD ZINN , author of A People's History of the United States DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS FROM DISPATCHES AMERICA'S CLASS WAR Coors LIGHT NO SNIVELING JOE BAGEANT MORE PRAISE FOR Deer Hunting ...
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... working class , whose members have been ravaged by the very party that purports to take their side . Meanwhile , the Left has largely tuned them out , or even laughed at their predicament . Of their degraded state - and , therefore ...
... working class , whose members have been ravaged by the very party that purports to take their side . Meanwhile , the Left has largely tuned them out , or even laughed at their predicament . Of their degraded state - and , therefore ...
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... working class so plainly voted against their own interests ? Two years later , Democrats regained , for the time being at least , a majority , and liberals have had time to contemplate what they see as the deeply uncultured mob that ...
... working class so plainly voted against their own interests ? Two years later , Democrats regained , for the time being at least , a majority , and liberals have had time to contemplate what they see as the deeply uncultured mob that ...
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Dispatches from America's Class War Joe Bageant. thing the thinking left and urban liberals have not done is tread the soil of the Goth - subject themselves to the unwashed working - class America , to that churchgoing , hunting and ...
Dispatches from America's Class War Joe Bageant. thing the thinking left and urban liberals have not done is tread the soil of the Goth - subject themselves to the unwashed working - class America , to that churchgoing , hunting and ...
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Dispatches from America's Class War Joe Bageant. Winchester is foremost a working - class town , despite the yuppie monster - bellums springing up on seven - acre plots all around it and the prettying - up of the old town core as a ...
Dispatches from America's Class War Joe Bageant. Winchester is foremost a working - class town , despite the yuppie monster - bellums springing up on seven - acre plots all around it and the prettying - up of the old town core as a ...
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