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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Dispatches from America's Class War Joe Bageant. " Joe Bageant is a brilliant writer . He evokes 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 from America's Class War Joe Bageant. " Joe Bageant is a brilliant writer . He evokes working class America like no one else . " -HOWARD ZINN , author of A People's History of the United States DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS FROM ...
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... writing is as lyrical as Nelson Algren's , and if there's a semblance of hope , it's that he catches on with new readers thanks to the alternative media . ” -Studs Terkel " This book is righteous , self - righteous , exhilarating , and ...
... writing is as lyrical as Nelson Algren's , and if there's a semblance of hope , it's that he catches on with new readers thanks to the alternative media . ” -Studs Terkel " This book is righteous , self - righteous , exhilarating , and ...
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... writing could be any of thousands of communities across the United States . It is an unacknowledged parallel world to that of educated urban liberals - the world that blindsided them in November 2004 and the one they will need to come ...
... writing could be any of thousands of communities across the United States . It is an unacknowledged parallel world to that of educated urban liberals - the world that blindsided them in November 2004 and the one they will need to come ...
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... writing , according to 2005 Census Bureau data , poor whites are the only group that is both growing in number and getting poorer . Everyone else is pretty much stuck , regardless of the Bush administration's crowing about fractional ...
... writing , according to 2005 Census Bureau data , poor whites are the only group that is both growing in number and getting poorer . Everyone else is pretty much stuck , regardless of the Bush administration's crowing about fractional ...
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... writer , and activist Michael Zweig at the State University of New York at Stony Brook . According to Zweig , a truck driver who owns his own rig may or may possibly be a member of the middle class , but a truck driver who works for a ...
... writer , and activist Michael Zweig at the State University of New York at Stony Brook . According to Zweig , a truck driver who owns his own rig may or may possibly be a member of the middle class , but a truck driver who works for a ...
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