Deer Hunting with Jesus, Joe Bageant
Deer Hunting with Jesus, Joe Bageant
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Deer Hunting with Jesus
Dispatches from America's Class War

Author: Joe Bageant

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/22/2022

Synopsis

By turns 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."

Deer Hunting with Jesus is Joe Bageant's report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia. Like countless American small towns, it is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. Two in five of the people in his old neighborhood do not have high school diplomas or health care. Alcohol, overeating, and Jesus are the preferred avenues of escape.

He writes of:

● His childhood friends who work at factory jobs that are constantly on the verge of being outsourced

● The mortgage and credit card rackets that saddle the working poor with debt

● The ubiquitous gun culture—and why the left doesn't get it

● Scots Irish culture and how it played out in the young life of Lynddie England

About Joe Bageant

Joe Bageant wrote an online column that made him a cult hero among gonzo-journalism junkies and progressives. He has been interviewed on Air America and comments on America's long history of religious fundamentalism in the BBC/Owl documentary The Vision: Americans on America. He worked as a senior editor for the Primedia History Magazine Group before moving to Belize, where he wrote and sponsored a small development project with the Black Carib families of Hopkins Village. Bageant's books include: Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir and Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: The Best of Joe Bageant, a collection of essays published posthumously.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christy on December 19, 2007

Joe Bageant's Deer Hunting with Jesus belongs to the tradition of books that has given us Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, and Jim Goad's The Redneck Manifesto. These books all aim to clarify the position of an all-too-often-overlooked cultural group and, in doing......more

Goodreads review by Malcolm on December 13, 2007

Oh boy, are the ditto heads and Bill O'Reilly fans gonna hate this one (rubbing hands together with glee). Imagine, a former small town redneck rejects the assertion that higher education is a form of snobbery, goes to California, gets a degree and embraces "the humanities" (gasp!) and then returns......more

Goodreads review by Lori on February 26, 2011

One Friday afternoon when my dad was a kid he got up and wandered over to the pencil sharpener by the window in his classroom. He was killing time and sharpening that pencil as slowly as he could and looking aimlessly out the window. That's when he saw his neighborhood explode in front of his eyes.......more

Goodreads review by Daisy on May 08, 2023

All you need to know about this book is that the title is taken from an actual radio show that provides prayers and scripture readings for those spending hours sitting still waiting in a hideout to blast the brains out of some hapless Bambi who happens to stroll into the wrong crosshair at the wrong......more

Goodreads review by Billrogers on February 17, 2008

Deer Hunting with Jesus is well-written; Joe Bageant has a way with words and with wry humor. I love the title! But ultimately the book disappointed me, and reading it was a waste of time. As I read the first few chapters, I found myself agreeing with the author, and often laughing out loud. Ultimate......more

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