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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War Joe Bageant. NY: Crown, 2007.

Standing on the subway, reading Deer Hunting with Jesus, I was approached by a nice-looking middle-aged woman who told me that if I enjoyed that book, I might also be interested in the book she was reading about The Promised Land. I did not want to disabuse her, but in fact she had clearly only read the word "Jesus" on the cover. Certainly the book covers fundamentalist Christianity, but the only "promised land" the author discusses is his home town of Winchester, Virginia.

Bageant left Winchester shortly after high school to explore the rest of the country. Thirty years later, he returned and lives ...

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