Joe Bageant was an American author and columnist.
11 Facts About Joe Bageant
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Joe Bageant was best known for his 2007 book Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches From America's Class War.
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Joe Bageant attended John Handley High School there, but his teachers told him that he was not cut out for college, and his parents pressured him to work from an early age.
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Joe Bageant bought an old school bus and headed for San Francisco.
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In Deer Hunting With Jesus, Joe Bageant discusses how the Democratic Party lost the political support of poor rural whites and how the Republican Party has convinced them to "vote against their own economic self-interest".
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In 2010, Joe Bageant published a similarly themed book, Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir.
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Joe Bageant used his extended family's experience after World War II to describe the social hierarchy in the United States.
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Joe Bageant frequently appeared as a commentator on radio and television internationally and wrote a progressive online column which was distributed to hundreds of blogs and websites.
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Joe Bageant served as a senior editor for Cyrano's Journal Today and The Greanville Post, two sites devoted to progressive political and media analyses.
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On January 4,2011, Joe Bageant announced on his web site that he had been "struck down by an extremely serious form of cancer" that was inoperable.
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On March 27,2011, it was announced on his website that Joe Bageant had died on March 26, following "a vibrant life" and a four-month struggle with cancer.