Rainbow pie
Subtitle: a redneck memoir
By: Joe Bageant
Publisher: Scribe Publications; Portobello Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Carlton North, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781921640919; 9781846272585
Subjects: Internal migrants; Biography; Social conditions; Rural-urban migration; Social change; Social classes
Description: "Combining recollection, stories, accounts, remembrance, and analysis, the book offers an intimate look at what Americans lost in the massive and orchestrated post-war social and economic shift from an agricultural to an urban consumer society. Along the way, he also provides insights into how 'the second and third generation of displaced agrarians', as Gore Vidal described them, now fuel the discontent of America's politically conservative, God-fearing, Obama-hating 'red-staters'. These are the gun-owning, uninsured, underemployed white tribes inhabiting America's urban and suburban heartland: the ones who never got a slice of the pie during the good times, and the ones hit hardest by America's bad times, and who hit back during election years. Their 'tough work and tougher luck' story stretches over generations, and Bageant tells it here with poignancy, indignation, and tinder-dry wit"--Page 4 of cover.
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