Rainbow Pie - A Memoir Of Redneck America

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As Obama's triumphant ' Yes we can' continues to reverberate, it's tempting to believe that a new era of opportunity has dawned. But there still are several million dirt-poor, disgruntled Americans for whom the possibility of change is as far away as ever. These are the gun-owning, donut dunkin, uninsured, underemployed rednecks who occupy America's heartland: the ones who never got a slice of the pie during the good times, & the ones who have been hit hardest by the economic slump. Theirs is a hard-luck story that goes back generations & Joe Bageant tells it here with poignancy, indignation, & tinder-dry wit. Through the tale of his own rambunctious Scots-Irish family, starting with his grandparents Maw & Pap, Bageant traces the post-war migration of the rural poor to the sprawling suburbs where they found, not the affluence they'd dreamed of, but isolation & deprivation, & the bitter futility of hope.