| Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War | 
 enlarge | Author: Joe Bageant
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 3.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0307339378
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
EAN: 9780307339379
ASIN: 0307339378
Publication Date: June 24, 2008
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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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 Why Rednecks Vote Republican December 2, 2008
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 names and identities have been changed to protect their privacy. It's about the way they think and why.
Rather than despising the way they pooh-pooh evolutionary science and feel sorry for their belief in a literal interpretation of the Bible, Bageant's has you empathizing with these old friends in Winchester, Virginia. Down home jokes have you laughing even guffawing at this take on Americana. Blue-state voters owe it to themselves to read "Deer Hunter With Jesus" just to fathom the reality behind the "red neck state" mentality.
 Biggoted and bitter....pure junk, but entertaining December 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 this type may "get a kick" out of this book, but for me, it was a wasted expense.
Sorry, but this is the way I see the book.
A Must Read November 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Footnotes!!! October 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 harder to dimiss or refute. Overall funny, insightful and highly entertaining but has a weakness in it's lack of verifiable sources.
A genuinely silly book September 28, 2008
2 out of 15 found this review helpful
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 thinking?
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