Deer hunting with Jesus dispatches from America's class war

After thirty years spent scratching together a middle-class life out of a dirt-poor childhood, Joe Bageant moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, where he realized that his family and neighbors were the very people who carried George W. Bush to victory. That was ironic, because Winchest...

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Main Author: Bageant, Joe.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Three Rivers Press, c2007.
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
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Table of 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.