Deer Hunting With Jesus

Author : Joe Bageant
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307449572
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deer Hunting with Jesus written by Joe Bageant and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war. 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

Author : Michael Herr
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307814165
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dispatches written by Michael Herr and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.

Author : Paula Young Lee
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
ISBN 13 : 1609520807
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deer Hunting in Paris written by Paula Young Lee and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a Korean-American preacher’s kid refuses to get married, travels the world, and quits being vegetarian? She meets her polar opposite on an online dating site while sitting at a café in Paris, France and ends up in Paris, Maine, learning how to hunt. A memoir and a cookbook with recipes that skewer human foibles and celebrates DIY food culture, Deer Hunting in Paris is an unexpectedly funny exploration of a vanishing way of life in a complex cosmopolitan world. Sneezing madly from hay fever, Lee recovers her roots in rural Maine by running after a headless chicken, learning how to sight in a rifle, shooting skeet, and butchering animals. Along the way, she figures out how to keep her boyfriend’s conservative Republican family from “mistaking” her for a deer and shooting her at the clothesline.

Author : Patrick Gilger
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608334481
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesuit Post written by Patrick Gilger and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from the eponymous blog essays on faith, culture, and lives of Christian discipleship by young Jesuit priests and seminarians for young adult seekers.

Author : Joseph Classen
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN 13 : 1612781616
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunting for God written by Joseph Classen and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2006-09-12 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the Great Outdoors! The excitement of the hunt ... The escape from everyday work and commitments ... The reflection of the rising sun on the water's edge ... And a new appreciation of God's awesome power -- all from the glory of nature! Take the trek of a lifetime. Join companion and confidante Fr. Joe Classen, a young priest inspired by God's creation, as he experiences the great outdoors. Share in empowering reflections about life, spirituality, and "the pursuit," as he recounts tales from boyhood to manhood, articulating the deep satisfaction and awesome responsibility of he who becomes one with nature. Perfect for every hunter, fisherman, or adventurer, this one-of-a-kind book guides you to: Recognize God in the abundance of nature Realize and mobilize your talents and gifts Find lasting sources of hope, strength, and happiness through the outdoors Address personal shortcomings and obstacles Search for the ultimate Truth ... and much more! Embark on a life-changing expedition of your own. Discover a renewed appreciation for God and His works -- through the vigor and vitality of the great outdoors!

Author : Joe Bageant
Publisher : Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 1921372079
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deer Hunting with Jesus written by Joe Bageant and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.' SHERMAN ALEXIE A RAUCOUS, TRUTH-TELLING LOOK AT THE WHITE WORKING POOR-AND WHY THEY HATE LIBERALISM When Joe Bageant returned to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, he rediscovered his redneck roots: 'the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks'. But he soon realised that these were the very people who had carried George W. Bush to victory. This seemed ironic, because Winchester, like countless American small towns, was fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass - a white ghetto of the working poor in which two in five people do not finish high school, nearly everyone over fifty has serious health problems and little or no health care, and credit ratings are virtually nonexistent. What it adds up to, Bageant argues, is an unacknowledged, American class war from which alcohol, overeating, and Jesus are the preferred avenues of escape. Deer Hunting with Jesus is a raucous mix of storytelling and political commentary. Bageant delivers a dose of redneck reality, describing 'white trashonomics' (mortgage and credit-card rackets that saddle the working poor with debt), the ubiquitous gun culture, factory jobs that are constantly on the verge of being outsourced, and the heady blend of Scots Irish culture with the blinkered 'magical thinking' of the Christian right. By turns brutal, tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, Deer Hunting with Jesus is a potent antidote to what Bageant dubs 'the American hologram'- the televised, corporatised, virtual reality that distracts us from the insidious realities of American life.

Author : Joe Bageant
Publisher : Portobello Books
ISBN 13 : 1846275598
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deer Hunting With Jesus written by Joe Bageant and published by Portobello Books. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Winchester, Virginia: a town populated almost entirely by the undereducated, the overweight and the dirt-poor. Patsy Cline may have been born here, but she got out pretty fast - for most of the inhabitants, life is a constant, unwinnable scrabble over mortgage repayments, loan debts and healthcare bills, and the only avenues of escape are a tour of duty in Iraq, alcohol, overeating or God. Joe Bageant knows these people well because he is one of them, and in this riveting journey around the factories, the rifle ranges, the bars and the lots of his hometown, he shows us how white working-class Americans have been exploited and betrayed by the very people - in Big Business and in the Republican government - they put their faith in. These people are not stupid white men (and women), but they are misled.

Author : Steve Chapman
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736967052
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hunter's Devotional written by Steve Chapman and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join God in the Great Outdoors The Hunter's Devotional by Steve Chapman invites hunters and outdoor enthusiasts to experience God in the adventure of hunting and beauty of nature. Filled with personal stories from Chapman's years of hunting and fishing, each devotion begins with a verse of Scripture followed by insights, anecdotes, and a short prayer. With wit and wisdom, Steve shares faith lessons learned through the many illustrations God's creation has provided. The perfect companion on hunting and fishing trips, this little companion will add a meaningful depth of spirituality to your journey.

Author : Steve Chapman
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736948295
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories from the Deer Stand written by Steve Chapman and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Steve Chapman (A Look at Life from a Deer Stand, 300,000 copies sold) takes readers into the woods to experience the thrill of the hunt and discover life-changing spiritual truths. Hunters and outdoorsmen will... feel the adrenaline rush of a bull elk charge stalk a whitetail deer match wits with a wily gobbler marvel at their place in God’s magnificent creation experience God’s loving care and wonderful provision Reaching out to the more than 60 million people in the U.S. alone who hunt, fish, and enjoy the outdoors, Stories from the Deer Stand takes readers into the fields and forests to encounter animals and meet God.

Author : Joe Bageant
Publisher : Portobello Books
ISBN 13 : 1846274087
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rainbow Pie written by Joe Bageant and published by Portobello Books. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Obama's triumphant 'Yes we can' continued to reverberate, it was tempting to believe that a new era of opportunity had dawned. But for several million dirt-poor, disgruntled Americans the possibility of change is as far away as ever. These are the gun-owning, donut dunkin', uninsured, underemployed rednecks who occupy America's heartland: the ones who never got a slice of the pie during the good times, and the ones who have been hit hardest by the economic slump. Theirs is a hard-luck story that goes back generations and Joe Bageant tells it here with poignancy, indignation, and tinder-dry wit. Through the tale of his own rambunctious Scots-Irish family, starting with his grandparents Maw and Pap, Bageant traces the post-war migration of the rural poor to the sprawling suburbs where they found, not the affluence they'd dreamed of, but isolation and deprivation, and the bitter futility of hope. What do the white working poor of America want, and what does America want for them?