Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War, (Paperback)

from addunn3

Bageant gives the reader a very different look at the world from angle of the low income worker, the trailer court homeowner, those living on the edge of the economy. Though he occasionally struggles in the deep end of the pool of facts, his insights are well worth the read. He takes a look at th...

from LynnB

Joe Bageant is a liberal from a red-neck background. After spending many years away, he moves back to the small town he was born in. This book looks, with affection and respect, at the people from his town and provides their stories and beliefs in a poignant, often funny, way. At another level, t...

from michellebarton

This book is a provocative look at southern rural communities in general, and Winchester, Virginia, the author's hometown, specifically. The author describes the culture and traditions of the inhabitants of these areas, and he pulls no punches in his descriptions. Do not look for any semblance of...

from xenchu

Joe Bageant is an angry man, angry with Conservatives and Liberals. He sees American culture as a hologram, an illusion created by Corporations. He writes about the redneck southern working class he grew up in which he feels is deluded and manipulated by Corporate America and the Republican party...

from crazy4novels

Joe Bageant focuses an uncompromising lens on "his people," the white working poor of Winchester, Virginia, and ends up producing a book that is both a scathing send-up and a loving tribute to his family, friends and neighbors in that neck of the woods. Bageant doesn't pull any punches: "Here, ne...