Rainbow Pie
A Redneck Memoir
JOE BAGEANT
Scribe, Biography & Autobiography
Paperback, 9781921640629
Author of Deer Hunting with Jesus, Joe Bageant has written a coming-of-age memoir set between 1950 and 1963 in the small Appalachian farming community along a West Virginia road named Shanghai (from the 17th-century Scots Irish, ‘Shangi’, meaning to celebrate). Combining recollection, stories, accounts, remembrance, and analysis, Bageant gives an intimate look at what America lost in its post-war transformation—moving from a nation of interconnecting families & communities to a consumer culture of ‘individuals’. This loss of meaningful work & community is illustrated through Joe’s family & the Shanghai Road community, as post-World War II America experienced a massive social & economic shift from agrarian to urban consciousness, and offers insights into what helped create America’s politically conservative ‘red staters’, not to mention a restless new underclass.
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