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La scrittura di Joe Bageant approfondisce il cuore dei movimenti controculturali, la ricerca spirituale e la vita ai margini della società americana. La sua prospettiva, modellata da influenze marxiste e buddiste, offre una profonda esplorazione delle problematiche sociali e della condizione umana. Basato su una vita vissuta in comunità, riserve e in viaggio, il suo lavoro offre una lente distintiva e autentica attraverso cui osservare la società americana. I lettori apprezzeranno le sue acute osservazioni e la sua unica voce narrativa.
Focusing on the experiences of a Scots-Irish family, this memoir explores the impact of social class on the lives of rural Americans transitioning to urban life between 1950 and 1963. Through personal recollections and analysis, it highlights the struggles of 22 million individuals who became part of a lasting white underclass amid the postwar shift from agriculture to consumerism. The narrative delves into the challenges faced by gun-owning, uninsured, and underemployed communities, providing a poignant look at their often heartbreaking journey.
The book critiques the state of American society, suggesting that many citizens exhibit irrational behavior while being influenced by a group of flawed leaders, primarily from religious and political backgrounds. It explores themes of madness, leadership, and societal dysfunction, offering a provocative commentary on contemporary issues in the United States.
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
In dieser Sammlung essayistischer Reportagen konfrontiert Joe Bageant auf erschütternde und humorvolle Weise den Alltag des amerikanischen Proletariats. Ausgehend von seinem Geburtsort Winchester, Virginia, führt der Autor uns in Arbeiterkneipen, Fabriken, fundamentalistische Kirchen und Militärgefängnisse im Irak. Dabei lässt er Menschen zu Wort kommen, die laut der Medienideologie der klassenlosen Gesellschaft nicht existieren dürften: Dottie, die zuckerkranke Karaoke-Sängerin; Tom Henderson, Vorarbeiter bei Rubbermaid; Lynndie England, Hühner-Schlacht-Gehilfin; und Ruth McCauley, die verarmte Witwe eines Truckers. Diese Protagonisten äußern sich direkt und unverblümt, ganz im Stil von Bageants bekannter Sprachgewalt und Ironie. Die Reportagen bieten ein informatives Porträt des amerikanischen Lebensgefühls in der Bush-Ära und eine gnadenlose Abrechnung mit der Arroganz, die Amerikas links-liberale Eliten gegenüber 'einfachen Leuten' zeigen. Bageant verdeutlicht seine tiefgreifenden Analysen der in den Fiktionen des 'amerikanischen Hologramms' gefangenen Gesellschaft durch bewegende Einzelschicksale und ermöglicht so ein neues Verständnis der amerikanischen Seele.
