Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

Years before Hillbilly Elegy andÂ White Trash,Â a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism.Â What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war.Â

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 JesusÂ is Joe Bageantâ€™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.Â

He writes of:

â€¢ His childhood friends who work at factory jobs that are constantly on the verge of being outsourced
â€¢ The mortgage and credit card rackets that saddle the working poor with debt
â€¢ The ubiquitous gun cultureâ€”and why the left doesnâ€™ t get it
â€¢ Scots Irish culture and how it played out in the young life of Lynddie England
Country USA
Brand Broadway Books
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780307339379
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2008-06-24
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780307339379

Country	USA
Brand	Broadway Books
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780307339379
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2008-06-24
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780307339379

Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

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