Joe:
Dam man, if you ever get out this way meet me at the Elks and I'll buy. I printed out your piece and passed it out to friends at work and at the Elks.
Al Hill
Fair Oaks, California
Joe's Books
Rainbow Pie:
A Redneck MemoirIn stock and available for one-day shipping by Amazon-US. Also now available in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
Videos
Joe Bageant is interviewed by American News Project.
Joe talks about his writing in this clip from the documentary "The Kingdom of Survival".
Hour-long interview and audience Q&A at the 2010 Brisbane Writers Festival (Australia). For other formats of this interview, click here and look in the left column for MP4 and WMV video, a shorter version of highlights, and MP3 audio.
Podcasts
Essays in PDF format
Paper or computer screen? All of Joe Bageant's essays are available in a wonderfully readable PDF format at ColdType.net.
Photo Albums
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March 14, 2005
Notes
Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: The Best of Joe Bageant will be published by by Penguin and Scribe (Australia) in late November in Australia and South Africa and some time next year in the US, UK and Canada. This is a selection of 25 of Joe's online essays. Before he died, Joe and I had talked about such a book, even though he initially had doubts that people would pay for something that's available for free on the web. But, many emails from his readers convinced him that there are sufficient number of people who prefer the feel of a real book rather than reading on a computer screen.I am already anticipating questions from readers: "How could you possibly have left out my favorite essay?" Well, I had to cut 50 essays to get under the 80,000 word limit. Two of my favorites by Joe didn't make it. If the book sells well enough, maybe there will be another volume.
Any proceeds from sales of the book will go to Joe's favorite charities.
-- Ken Smith
ken@kvsmith.com
Joe died last March, but his email is still being read. His wife and children send their deep appreciation to his friends and readers for all their kind words.
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- In Praise of Holy Madness
- Finding Jesus at the Cracker Barrel
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- Poor, White and Pissed
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- A Mean and Unholy Ditch
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- Lafayette Park Blues
- Karaoke Night in George Bush's America
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- Cranky Reflections on the Fourth of July
- Is Our President a Wackjob?
- Sons of a Laboring God
- Mash Note for the 'Girl with the Leash'
- The Covert Kingdom
- Staring Down the Jackals
- John Ashcroft, Keep Your Mouth Off My Wife!
- Sleepwalking to Fallujah
- Howling in the Belly of the Confederacy
