July 2014
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.”
-amazon.com
Joe’s book on Congressman’s six best list
Joe Bageant is in good company this week (January 2014) as his book Deer Hunting with Jesus was chosen as one of six “Best books” by U.S. Representative Keith Ellison, D-Minn. The recognition was in THE WEEK, a weekly British news magazine which also publishes a US edition.
The other five books and their authors are:
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley.
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson.
Who Stole the American Dream? by Hedrick Smith.
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup.
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
— Ken Smith