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 other books include: Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir and Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: The Best of Joe Bageant, a collection of essays published posthumously.
"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."
—Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
"This book is righteous, self-righteous, exhilarating, and
aggravating. By God, it's a raging, hilarious, and profane love
song to the great American redneck. As a blue state man with a red
state childhood, I have been waiting for this book for years. We
ignore its message at our peril."
—Sherman Alexie, author of Reservation Blues
“This fine book sheds a devastating light on Bush & Co.'s notorious
'base,' i.e. America's white working class, whose members have been
ravaged by the very party that purports to take their side.
Meanwhile, the left has largely turned them out, or even laughed at
their predicament. Of their degraded state—and, therefore, ours—Joe
Bageant writes like an avenging angel.”
—Mark Crispin Miller, author of Fooled Again: The Real Case for
Election Reform
"Joe Bageant is the Sartre of Appalachia. His white-hot
bourbon-fuelled prose shreds through the lies of our times like a
weed-whacker in overdrive. Deer Hunting with Jesus is a deliciously
vicious and wickedly funny chronicle of a thinking man's life in
God's own backwoods."
—Jeffrey St. Clair, author of Grand Theft Pentagon and co-editor of
CounterPunch
“This recounting of lost lives—of white have-nots in one of our
most have-not states—has the power of an old-time Scottish Border
ballad. It is maddening and provocative that the true believers in
'American exceptionalism' and ersatz machismo side with those
stepping all over them. Bageant's writing is as lyrical as Nelson
Algren's, and if there's a semblance of hope, it's that he catches
on with new readers thanks to the alternative media.”
—Studs Terkel
"Deer Hunting with Jesus is one of those rare books that is
colorful, depressing, hilarious, and biting all at the same time.
Joe Bageant has given us a glimpse into the vicious class war that
is too often ignored or hidden by those happily perpetrating this
war."
—David Sirota, author of Hostile Takeover
“Dead serious and damn funny...Bageant writes with the ghosts of
Hunter S. Thompson, Will Rogers, and Frank Zappa kibitzing over his
shoulder...Takes Thomas Frank’s What’s the Matter With Kansas, to
the next level. “
—Mother Jones
“Bageant mixes a reporter's keen analysis, a storyteller's color,
and a native son's love of his roots in this absorbing dissection
of America's working poor...wise, tender, and acerbic."
—Booklist
“Mixing folksy populism with the lacerating fury of Hunter S.
Thompson, Bageant’s bitingly funny report can at times make Michael
Moore seem tame. While Hunting may leave you heartsick, it’s hard
to turn away.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Informative, infuriating, terrifying, scintillating...Imagine a
cross between Thomas Frank’s What’s the Matter with Kansas?, Hunter
S. Thompson’s booze-and-dope-fueled meditations on Nixon’s
political potency, and C. Wright Mills’s understanding of the
durability of the power elite.”
—The American Prospect
“Hilariously funny, very angry, and somewhat depressing...The one
book I read in 2007 that I would like all of you to read.”
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"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."
-Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United
States
"This book is righteous, self-righteous, exhilarating, and
aggravating. By God, it's a raging, hilarious, and profane love
song to the great American redneck. As a blue state man with a red
state childhood, I have been waiting for this book for years. We
ignore its message at our peril."
-Sherman Alexie, author of Reservation Blues
"This fine book sheds a devastating light on Bush & Co.'s notorious
'base,' i.e. America's white working class, whose members have been
ravaged by the very party that purports to take their side.
Meanwhile, the left has largely turned them out, or even laughed at
their predicament. Of their degraded state-and, therefore, ours-Joe
Bageant writes like an avenging angel."
-Mark Crispin Miller, author of Fooled Again: The Real
Case for Election Reform
"Joe Bageant is the Sartre of Appalachia. His white-hot
bourbon-fuelled prose shreds through the lies of our times like a
weed-whacker in overdrive. Deer Hunting with Jesus is a deliciously
vicious and wickedly funny chronicle of a thinking man's life in
God's own backwoods."
-Jeffrey St. Clair, author of Grand Theft Pentagon and
co-editor of CounterPunch
"This recounting of lost lives-of white have-nots in one of our
most have-not states-has the power of an old-time Scottish Border
ballad. It is maddening and provocative that the true believers in
'American exceptionalism' and ersatz machismo side with those
stepping all over them. Bageant's writing is as lyrical as Nelson
Algren's, and if there's a semblance of hope, it's that he catches
on with new readers thanks to the alternative media."
-Studs Terkel
"Deer Hunting with Jesus is one of those rare books that is
colorful, depressing, hilarious, and biting all at the same time.
Joe Bageant has given us a glimpse into the vicious class war that
is too often ignored or hidden by those happily perpetrating this
war."
-David Sirota, author of Hostile Takeover
"Dead serious and damn funny...Bageant writes with the ghosts of
Hunter S. Thompson, Will Rogers, and Frank Zappa kibitzing over his
shoulder...Takes Thomas Frank's What's the Matter With Kansas, to
the next level. "
-Mother Jones
"Bageant mixes a reporter's keen analysis, a storyteller's color,
and a native son's love of his roots in this absorbing dissection
of America's working poor...wise, tender, and acerbic."
-Booklist
"Mixing folksy populism with the lacerating fury of Hunter S.
Thompson, Bageant's bitingly funny report can at times make Michael
Moore seem tame. While Hunting may leave you heartsick, it's hard
to turn away."
-Entertainment Weekly
"Informative, infuriating, terrifying, scintillating...Imagine a
cross between Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas?, Hunter
S. Thompson's booze-and-dope-fueled meditations on Nixon's
political potency, and C. Wright Mills's understanding of the
durability of the power elite."
-The American Prospect
"Hilariously funny, very angry, and somewhat depressing...The one
book I read in 2007 that I would like all of you to read."
-Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
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