The deeper truth behind the crisis

Karen Buck, Regeneration & Renewal, 26 September 2008

On holiday in Devon last month, the rain falling day in and day out for three weeks, I struck upon a rich seam of newly published books on the American political and economic scene which, written prior to the banking crisis now engulfing the world, pointed the way to it with startling prescience. Yet these were no dry tomes of economic theory.

Deer Hunting with Jesus (stick with me on this!) is an informal, personal journey into working class Republican heartlands, in which the author tries to understand why the poor people...

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