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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
EAN: 9780307339379
ISBN: 0307339378
Label: Three Rivers Press
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishUnknownEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: June 24, 2008
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Studio: Three Rivers Press
Features:- ISBN13: 9780307339379
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Editorial Review:A raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor-and why they hate liberalism.Deer Hunting with Jesus is web columnist Joe Bageant’s report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, which-like countless American small towns-is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. By turns brutal, 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."
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Really great book, couldn't put it down. The biggest problem is that Bageant can't help writing from his political view. He is far left or socialist or what-have-you which I don't mind (because those are my views as well) but will make the book unreadable to any conservatives. That's a shame because it's a amazing sketch of white trash life in the rural towns of America, which is entertaining and informative. His chapter defending gun-owners really made me rethink my position.
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Written with wit and style...as a fellow southerner by birth, this story rings so true, if only the reality of it were not so depressing. That most folks don't connect the dots between the reality of their lives and the system that perpetuates it speaks loudly to how our educational system doesn't teach us to 'think'.
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I LOVE THIS BOOK. IT JUST SO DESCRIBES THE MEDIEVAL TOWN I LIVE IN. THERE ARE PEOPLE JUST LIKE THESE HERE IN OKLAHOMA. A LOT OF THEM. THE MILITARY. CHURCHES. "W" STICKERS ON THEIR CARS. I QUIT FEELING SORRY FOR THEM YEARS AGO. WHEN YOU BRING UP VOTING FOR A DEMOCRAT YOU GET "SHUNNED"! EARN YOUR STINKING EIGHT DOLLARS AN HOUR AND GIVE IT TO WAL-MART AND THAT EVIL PREACHER YOU LOVE SO MUCH...
READ THIS BOOK FOR SOME INSIGHT INTO A PRIMITIVE WORLD. AND NOW BOYS AND GIRLS A SIMPLE QUESTION: ... Read More
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Before I purchased the book I read several of Joe Bageant's commentaries and didn't see how he could top them. Boy was I surprised. This is a real eye opener about how the "system" really works. I was expecting a funny read. It is funny in parts but overall it is a scathing indictment of what America has become due to our being fed from birth the pablum of patriotism, god and an economy based on consumer spending. If we can't do something about it we're screwed.
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Bageant's commentary is biting, certainly, but I actually got a lot of compassion out of what he wrote. I think the bite comes from frustration as much as from "hatred", which is how at least one reviewer I read interpreted his tone.
Further, I thought the real villains of the book, if the word is accurate, were the upper and middle classes who support this mass dehumanization of the working class, and have a direct stake in keeping them ignorant and uniformed consumers. I thought his comments ... Read More
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