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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
Published: Jun 2008
Genre: Political Science - Essays
Retail Price: $17.00
Pages: 288
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.