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Binding: PaperbackDewey 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 Studio: Three Rivers Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: 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." Average Rating:
 Rating: - I may not be an AmericanI'm not an American. I wasn't born there and have never travelled there, although it would be false to say that I wasn't influence by US culture. I live in Perth, Australia, but I was not born here either. Home for me was Africa, a long time ago. Today my home is in the West. The Wild West of the USA is continually knocking on the doors of my consciousness, via the action movies and crime shows that find their way onto my TV. Perth, too, is of the "West" - not just in ... Read More Rating: - An insider's view of a world hidden from American suburbanitesThis tends to wax very partisan Democratic, which isn't my preference, but the author does so well describing the various characters in his small town, you can't help but read this and feel like you've gotten to know these people better- people living outside the heavily corporatized, overprocessed, standardized bland bubble of suburban America. Some of the author's observations are compelling, regardless of one's politics- the chapter on Lyndie England, for example. If you tend to approach politics ... Read More Rating:  - Why Rednecks Vote RepublicanBageant 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 names ... Read More Rating:  - Biggoted and bitter....pure junk, but entertainingThis 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 this ... Read More Rating: - A Must ReadThis 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. 
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