Deer Hunting with Jesus by Joe Bageant

Deer Hunting with Jesus by Joe Bageant

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

Joe Bageant is a columnist and political pundit who has contributed to foreign newspapers and publications as well as appearing on American television. The BBC and national public radio He is the author of the book Deer Hunting with Jesus, which is being adapted into a dramatic television series in the United States.

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ISBN 13	9780307339362
ISBN 10	030733936X
Title	Deer Hunting with Jesus
Author	Joe Bageant
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Crown Business
Year published	2007-06-19
Number of pages	273
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