Deer Hunting with Jesus
By
Bageant, Joe
| Price: | $15.95 |
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| Categories: | Political Science, Social Science |
| ISBN: | 9780307449573 |
| Publisher: | Crown Publishing Group |
| Language: | English |
Summary
"Joe Bageant is a brilliant writer. He evokes working class America like no one else. The account of his revisit to his Virginia roots is sobering, poignant, and instructive." Continue reading...
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Helpful Customer Reviews
Deer Hunting with Jesus
Dave (Watertown, MA)
Thu Mar 19 2009 08:34
This insightful book gets beneath the astonishing fact that economically disadvantaged people vote against their own interests with the FACTS about why they do. You have to begin by acknowledging that there are distinct and strict class distinctions in America--this fact is often ignored or no treat...more...
Yvonne (Saint Albans, WV)
Tue Jan 06 2009 19:43
Of course the recent presidential election motivated me to read this book about why the author thinks that working class whites (as defined by him) vote Republican -- against their own economic self-interest. He uses his hometown of Winchester, VA to illustrate his ideas about the subject. My only c...more...
Debbie (775113342)
Fri Jul 24 2009 21:07
Bageant returns to the town of his childhood and youth after years in the big city, a cosmopolitan life, to find little has changed. The town’s people are mostly high school educated, conservative, church-going, and working at high stress and low paying jobs. Bageant is both tough and gentle with ...more...
Andrea (Charlottesville, VA)
Wed Jul 07 2010 11:16
I was expecting this to be an intelligent discussion of long-ignored tension that our nation is facing. I was wrong. The premise of Bageant's book is insightful and prompts much-needed dialogue: why do poor, working-class whites consistently vote Republican, in many cases against their own best inte...more...
Burt (The United States)
Sun Mar 15 2009 11:07
This is the book that for me answered the question of who were all the people that voted for Bush the second time. It was hard for me to fathom that were enough people that could think that the first four year of W's presidency were a good thing, and that he deserved another four. That the direction...more...
Glenn (The United States)
Tue Nov 24 2009 23:23
Very interesting book. Writer has his finger on the irony of what he sees as a particular group of oppressed working class (in his home town) supporting the government that keeps them that way. Goes on to show on a few levels how that works. Also takes a swipe at the "progressive liberals"...more...
Hannah (Columbus, OH)
Wed Mar 10 2010 21:59
"The primary difference between the two [political:] parties is that the Republicans pretty much admit that they grasp and even endorse some of the nastiest facts of life in America. . . Democrats, in contrast, seem content to catalog the GOP's outrages against the Republic, showing proper indi...more...
Kimberly (Saint Louis, MI)
Sat Mar 14 2009 21:59
I'm still reading this book (published in 2007), but so far all it has done is raise my blood pressure a little and reiterate my beliefs that many liberals feel that the rest of us are too stupid to decide for ourselves what we should believe in. That somehow they are the only ones with an educatio...more...
Litchick (Las Vegas, NV)
Wed Nov 11 2009 18:13
The only way I could make it through this book was by reminding myself that since the time it was written, Obama had been elected and we had health care reform on the senate burner. Written in 2007, it's at once a sad story of the way the republicans work to fatten their wallets at the expense of wo...more...
Zach (Seattle, WA)
Tue Dec 08 2009 19:01
Joe Bageant confronts his urban liberal audience early on with an uncomfortable truth: we're seen as elitists by the subjects of his book -- white, rural, poor working folk who vote against their own economic interests -- because we do genuinely look down our noses at them. For all our academic buc...more...
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