Joe Bageant
Joe Bageant writes an online column (http://www.joebageant.com) that has made him a cult hero among gonzo-journalism junkies and progressives.
He is the author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: dispatches from America’s class war (Scribe) described by Charles Firth as the ‘single most insightful book about America available — written in fluid, hilarious prose by one of the great American writers of his generation’. Joe 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.
Until recently he worked as a senior editor for the Primedia History Magazine Group. Bageant and his wife recently downsized their lives in America so that Joe could spend half the year in Belize, where he writes and sponsors a small development project with the Black Carib families of Hopkins Village.
Articles by Joe Bageant
An underclass war that is more than just linguistic
“White underclass” is a term I’ve used often in my writing, and most American readers seem to know what I…... Read more
Workers must seize back the golden age for themselves
During my childhood, 1957 and 1958 were “the two good years,” the were the only years my working class redneck…... Read more
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They must pay for one’s bitter disappointments
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