Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class.

Deer Hunting with Jesus by Joe Bageant The sitters wait at didn do homework end of the hunting for the paper to come at them. We all go over the plan one last time before we split up. We have to know where everyone is at all deer for it to be safe and effective.

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.

Joe Bageantis the author of a forthcoming book, Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class Warfrom Random House Crown on working class America, to be released on April 24, 2007. A complete archive of his online work, along with the thoughts of many working class Americans on the subject of class may be found at ww.joebageant.com.

It’s Joe Bageant week at The Contrary Perspective. Bageant is best know for writing Deer Hunting with Jesus, but his second (and sadly his last) book, Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir, is equally good. Bageant, a self-confessed “redneck,” worked his way into the middle class as an editor. But he never forgot his roots in Appalachia and the subsistence farming of his Scots-Irish family.

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Nearly everyone over fifty has serious health problems, and many have no health care. Credit ratings are low or nonexistent, and alcohol, overeating, and Jesus are the preferred avenues of escape.A raucous mix of storytelling and political commentary, Deer Hunting with Jesus is Bageant’s report on what he learned by coming home.

Deer Hunting With Jesus Dispatches From America's Class War (Book): Bageant, Joe: 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.

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.

Rainbow Pie is a coming-of-age memoir wrapped around a discussion of America's most taboo subject -- social class. Set between 1950 and 1963, Joe Bageant uses Maw, Pap, Ony Mae, and other members of his rambunctious Scots-Irish family to chronicle the often-heartbreaking post-war journey of 22 million rural Americans into the cities, where they became the foundation of a permanent white.

A book that notably avoids that implication is the older, irreverent Deer Hunting with Jesus, by Joe Bageant. A class migrant himself, Bageant returns to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, to understand what has led to its residents’ political conservatism and economic stagnation.

Deer Hunting with Jesus is a potent antidote to what Bageant dubs “the American hologram” - the televised, corporatized virtual reality that distracts us from the insidious realities of American life.

Deer hunting with Jesus is a clean shot with a bolt-action .30-06. An old but well oiled .30-06. As Joe would say: Solidarity, in art and labor. (disclosure: Joe sent me a review copy and mentioned me in the book's acknowledgments. This in no way affected my review. It only surprises me that anyone might listen to me.) Deer Hunting with Jesus.