Joe Bageantauthor profile |
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| born | January 01, 1946 | |||
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| gender | male | |||
| place of birth | Winchester, Virginia, United States | |||
| website | http://www.joebageant.com/ | |||
| genre | Nonfiction | |||
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about this author
Joe Bageant: Born in rural Virginia. After stint in Navy became anti-war hippie, ran off to the West Coast ... lived in communes, hippie school buses... started writing about holy men, countercultural figures, rock stars and the American scene in 1971 ... lived in Boulder, Colorado until mid 1980s ... 14 years in all ... became a Marxist and a half-assed Buddhist ... Traveled to Central America to write about third World issues... Moved to the Coeur d'Alene Indian reservation in Idaho, built a cabin, lived without electricity, farmed with horses for seven years ... tended reservation bar (The Bald Eagle Bar), wrote for regional newspapers... generally festered on life in America ... Moved to Moscow, Idaho, worked on third rate newspape...more |
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books by Joe Bageantcombine editionsavg rating: 3.83 | 178 ratings | 1 distinct work
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quotes by Joe Bageant
"This book is written from a changing town in Virginia, but this class of mine, these people--the ones who smell like an ashtray in the checkout line, devour a carton of Little Debbies at a sitting, and praise Jesus for a truck with no spare tire--exist in every state in our nation. Maybe the next time we on the left encounter such seemingly self-screwing, stubborn, God-obsessed folks, we can be open to their trials, understand the complexity of their situation, even have enough solidarity to pop for a cheap retread tire out of our own pockets, simply because that would be the kind thing to do and surely would make the ghosts of Joe Hill, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Mohandas Gandhi smile."
— Joe Bageant
— Joe Bageant
"Remember when welfare mothers were robbing us all blind and driving Cadillacs? "
— Joe Bageant (Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War)
— Joe Bageant (Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War)
"Remember when welfare mothers were robbing us all blind and driving Cadillacs? Thirty years and a couple of Democratic administrations later, things are only worse."
— Joe Bageant
— Joe Bageant