WALTZING AT THE DOOMSDAY BALL: THE BEST OF JOE BAGEANT
Book ID/图书代码： 11980511B48473
English Summary/英文概要： ‘I’m so damn average that what I write resonates with people,’Joe Bageant said in explaining how he gained a global following for his web-published essays. In 2004 at the age of 57, Joe sensed that the internet could give him editorial freedom.
Without gatekeepers, he began writing about what he was really thinking, and started submitting his essays to left-of-centre websites. Joe’s essays soon gained a wide following for his forceful style, his sense of humour, and his willingness to discuss the American white underclass, a taboo topic for the mainstream media. Joe called himself a ‘redneck socialist’, and he initially thought most of his readers would be very much like himself — working class from the southern section of the USA. So he was pleasantly surprised when the emails started filling his in-box.
There were indeed many letters from men about Joe’s age who had also escaped rural poverty. But there were also emails from younger men and women readers, from affluent people who agreed that the political and economic system needed an overhaul, from readers in dozens of countries expressing thanks for an alternative view of American life, from working-class Americans in all parts of the country, and more than a few from elderly women who wrote to Joe to say that they respected and appreciated his writing, but ‘please don’t use so much profanity’.
Joe Bageant died in March 2011 at the age of 64, having published 89 essays online. The 25 essays presented here in Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball have been selected by Ken Smith, who managed Joe’s website and disseminated his work to the wider media and to Joe’s dedicated fans and followers.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： “我是个俗人，我的观点能在人群中引起共鸣，那是因为我和他们无异。”乔•巴金特如是解释他网站上的文章为何会引来一大批全球追随者。2004年，57岁的乔觉得因特网可以让他自由的发表言论，享受到出版自由，因而在没有网守的情况下，他开始在网路上毫不顾忌的发表他对社会的真实看法，并在一些略带左倾倾向的网站上发表文章。 因为其文章颇有力度，语言风趣幽默，而他本人也很愿意参与讨论美国处于下层的白人现状，甚至在主流媒体上讨论一些禁忌话题，很快乔便蹿红网络，并有了一大批追随者。乔自嘲自己是“一身乡土气息的社会主义者”，虽然从一开始，他就相信读者们会喜欢他，因为他来自于美国南部的工人阶层，但当他的邮箱真的被各式各样的来信挤爆时，他更是吃惊不已。
其中有许多来信是来自和乔一样的中年人，他们同样来到大城市只为逃离乡下贫困的生活，但同样也有来自稍年轻一些的青年男女的来信和来自富裕阶层的来信，他们认同乔对于当前政治和经济体制的看法，认为社会需要一次彻底的大修整，而来自于许多其他国家的读者则感谢乔让他们从另一个角度认识了美国，认识了美国各地的工人阶级，当然也有来自于一些老龄妇女的来信，她们尊敬乔，并感谢他的言论，但是他们希望他可以减少不敬语言的使用。
2004年，乔•巴金特逝世，享年64岁，至此，他已在网路上发表了89篇论文。本书中刊载了其中25篇，又肯•史密斯选编，他曾提乔管理网站，将他的作品向更为广泛的媒体宣传，并介绍给乔忠心的粉丝和追随者们。(兼职翻译-DC)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 肯•史密斯自2004年网站设立以来管理乔的网站，向乔的忠实粉丝和媒体宣传其文章。他曾说：”我希望大家都能读到乔的文章，我想让大家都能明白乔想要向我们传达的东西，也许你无法完全赞同他，但是你不得不承认，阅读乔的文章，你无法不因此而认真思考。 Ken Smith managed Joe Bageant’s website since its launch in 2004 and has promoted Joe’s work widely to his dedicated fans and the wider media. In Kenneth’s own words ‘I want as many people as possible to read what Joe had to say. You may not entirely agree with him, but Joe will make you think.’
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