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Deer hunting with Jesus : dispatches from America's class war / Joe Bageant.

By:

Bageant, Joe

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Three Rivers Press , c2007.Edition: 1st paperback edDescription: 273 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780307339379

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DDC classification:

305.5 BAG

LOC classification:

HN90.S6 B32 2007

Contents:

American serfs : inside the white ghetto of the working poor -- Republican by default : redneck pride and fear in an age of outsourcing -- The deep-fried, double-wide lifestyle : whatever it takes, the mortgage racket will put you under your own roof -- Valley of the gun : black powder and buckskin in heartland America -- The covert kingdom : they plead upon the blood of Jesus for a theocratic state -- The ballad of Lynddie England : one foot in Ulster, the other in Iraq -- An authorized place to die : the American health care system on life support -- American hologram : the apocalypse will be televised.

Summary: Deer Hunting with Jesus is Joe Bageant'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.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	305.5 BAG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		020662

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Deer Hunting with Jesus is Joe Bageant'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.

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