BOOKS: Deer Hunting With Jesus -- Dispatches from America's Class War (Joe Bageant)

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Joe Bageant -- World News Trust

“Well, good lordie, you really was writin a book! I thought it was just some bullshit you spread around when you got drunk.”

Aug. 14, 2006 -- That was my friend Fat Larry’s reaction when I showed him the Amazon.com prepublication sale of my book a few days ago. Longtime Internet readers will notice that the title has changed to Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches From America’s Class War.

The original title was Drink, Pray, Fight, Fuck: Dispatches From America’s Class War. Contrary to what one might suspect, the name change had not as much to do with the word “fuck” as it did the fact that a book was recently released with a very similar title. So, after much kicking around of other titles, Deer Hunting With Jesus was chosen because it is in the spirit of the book and the people within its pages, hopefully with a satisfying dose of humor in the mix.

Deer hunting and Jesus do come together in the book (in fact, there are Christian Deer Hunter’s Associations, Google it) in what I hope gives insight to the working class flyover America that hunts, prays, work like dogs and voted for the Dub -- twice.

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