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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
EAN: 9780307339379
ISBN: 0307339378
Label: Three Rivers Press
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
Sales Rank: 5986
Studio: Three Rivers Press
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Product Description:
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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Rating:  - Why Rednecks Vote Republican
Bageant hits a home run in "Deer Hunting With Jesus." Only a skilled expatriate writer returning to his roots in Appalachia could weave a story explaining why dirt poor white folk put their faith in political dogmas that run against their own best economic interests. Partly due to poor education and ignorance, the redneck mindset developed out of the history of persecuted Scotch-Irish immigrants living in mountainous isolation in frontier America. This book is about real people, old friends, whose ... Read More
Rating:  - Biggoted and bitter....pure junk, but entertaining
This book was a joke. Joe is obviously bitter at the world. Having lived in a small town, I can relate to some of his observations, and he should be ashamed of his general review of "his community". He is obviously deeply offended by those that have "made money" in his hometown.
I would not buy this book again...just too much good stuff out there to read. I kept reading the book, though, for I thought he would get to a point, which he never did.
Rednecks, biggots, ignorants, and more of ... Read More
Rating: - A Must Read
This was a "must read" before this year's election and now moving forward to get our nation working together, its message is even more critical.
Rating: - Footnotes!!!
The picture he paints here is definately one that is very troubling. I am in complete agreement with him as to the scale of the problems that our nations face. I think the way that he is able to humanize the ignorant is commendable. His book ultimately has one major flaw that keeps me from giving it a 5 star rating, that flaw is the lack of footnotes. He does cite diferrent authors along the way keeping me from just assuming that he is on a long rant. Footnotes would have made his message/narrative ... Read More
Rating: - A genuinely silly book
What was Random House thinking? Mr Bageant is a master of poor spelling, imaginary statistics, boozy condescension and political paranoia. If you seek a semi-literate account of Winchester, Virginia (a town I know well)as the paradigm of American police-state bigotry, violence, hysteria, universal poverty, and congenital stupidity -- all wrapped in a grating 'folksiness' and cloying narcissism -- this is the book for you. Otherwise, it is both unreadable and unedifying. As I say, what was Random House ... Read More
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