Goad is raunchy, filthy, foul-mouthed, and brilliantly truthful in his book, "The Redneck Manifesto." I saw myself in every word. This country was built by rednecks and I have never been more proud of being one.
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Jim Goad, in his "Redneck Manifessto" assumes a role most white-bread middle Americans would probably never cast him in. For a self-proclaimed piece of "white trash", Mr. Goad proves not only unusually insightful, but extremely articulate in a manner those same middle Americans would not expect from a "hillbilly". The actual topics of conversation are ones that have suffered from a terribly long run of having been either...
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This wonderful little gem is something I would assign in a second were I a teacher of American history in a liberal school like Berkeley where, contrary to the alleged situation in the rest of the country, undergraduates are forced, via a required class, to be sensitive to American diversity, which (in the class I took there) ended up containing a great many cliched leftist attacks on white males, heterosexuality, Christianity,...
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If you decide to read this book, you are in for a major treat. This is a book unlike any other. As I read the book, I kept wondering how it ever got published. Jim Goad is one angry redneck, to be sure. His goal is to show how poor white trash has become the only acceptable scapegoat left in this country. Along the way, he rides roughshod over every type of politically correct supposition known to man. Goad doesn't care a...
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I've got an awful lot of education in me, and this might be the most important book that I've read left off of every syllabus ever....In haute culture and academia, the only acceptible slurs allowed are against those poor and white. Whereas a person raised impoverished in Harlem (where I live...) or South Central L.A. might be given compassion, a person raised in Boone County, West Virginia or Paducah, Kentucky would...
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