Joe Bageant's Blog, page 2

Tribute to a white trash saint

Hiram Hank Williams was his full name and he was born in Georgiana, Alabama on Sept. 17, 1923, the son of a railroad engineer and a very crude and dominant mother whose character had been permanently scarred by the harsh realities of a dirt-poor South.

In the footsteps of Neal Cassady's ghost

Early writing of Joe Bageant, "In the footsteps of Neal Cassady's ghost," published in The Colorado Daily, March 9, 1976.



By Joe Bageant

Introduction to book of Joe's essays

This is the introduction to Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: The Best of Joe Bageant, a book released today and available through Amazon-US. It includes 25 of Joe's essays published online in the past seven years. Please feel free to copy and re-post.

Book with Joe's best essays now on Amazon

For those who prefer a real book rather than reading on a computer screen, a book with 25 of Joe Bageant's best essays is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: The Best of Joe Bageant will be available for distribution in the USA April 1.

Joe Bageant's essays in book form

The book I edited of Joe Bageant's essays was released six weeks ago in Australia, but today I was finally able to see and hold a copy. The first mailing of the book apparently is stuck in Mexican customs. The book is Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: The Best of Joe Bageant.

Now the World is a Sadder, Sillier Place

Joe Bageant spent much of his life kicking the collective asses of the bigots, the prideful, the pompous, the blindly patriotic and the cruel. And in that life he also brought balm and his big love to the weaker-thans and the world-forgotten. He was an honorable man.

Documentary film with Joe Bageant opens

Kingdom of Survival, a documentary film in which Joe Bageant is a focal point, will premier at the World Film Festival (Festival des Films du Monde) in Montreal, August 18 through August 28. The segments of the film with Joe were made more than a year ago.

Joe picks and sings Hemingway's Whisky

Joe picks and sings "Hemingway's Whisky" in this outtake from The Kingdom of Survival, a documentary now in production that includes interviews with Joe Bageant, Noam Chomsky, a radical book publisher, a cabin builder, a musician, and a radio host.

Bageant’s Frustration: Extreme Isolation

There aren’t too many leftnecks in the United States; of that, we can be sure. This was the source of Joe Bageant’s frustration: extreme isolation. Because he realized that the U.S. was the greatest snow job of all time.

Bageant's Frustration: Extreme Isolation

There aren't too many leftnecks in the United States; of that, we can be sure. This was the source of Joe Bageant's frustration: extreme isolation. Because he realized that the U.S. was the greatest snow job of all time.