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Essays.
Politics.
Sociology.
Nonfiction.
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.… (altro)
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For Barbara and Ken
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On the morning of November 2, 2004, millions of Democrats arose to a new order.
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Employment numbers and the number of Americans killed in Iraq and stock market numbers slosh against the beaches of awareness alongside the football scores and the number of cockroaches swallowed by a busty blonde on Fear Factor, meaningless numbers that, like the cops outside and the drinkers inside, were long ago lost beneath the hologram's gushing spectacle.
Essays.
Politics.
Sociology.
Nonfiction.
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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