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Rainbow pieJoe Bageant
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Rainbow pie

320 pagesFirst published 20107 editions
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"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…

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionScribe Publications2011—9781921753572
EditionScribe Publications20113209781921863158
EditionScribe Publications20113109781921640919
EditionScribe Publications20113219781306099615
EditionPortobello Books2011—9781846274084
EditionScribe Publications20103209781921753343
EditionPortobello20103109781846272578
Social conditionsPoor whitesBiographyPoorInternal migrantsRural-urban migrationSocial changeSocial classes