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Culture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social group -- the cultural clan variously referred to as rednecks, hillbillies, white trash, crackers, and trailer trash. As The Redneck Manifesto boldly points out and brilliantly demonstrates, America's dirty little secret isn't racism but classism. While pouncing incessantly on racial themes, most major media are silent about America's widening class rifts, a problem that negatively affects more people of all colors than does racism. With an unmatched ability for rubbing salt in cultural wounds, Jim Goad deftly dismantles most popular American notions about race and culture and takes a sledgehammer to our delicate glass-blown popular conceptions of government, religion, media, and history.

Controversy defines Jim Goad's journey as an underground celebrity, marked by an obscenity trial linked to his magazine, a violent incident involving a shooter who cited his work, and a prison sentence for assault. "Shit Magnet" serves as his manifesto, crafted during his time behind bars, reflecting on his tumultuous experiences and the provocative themes that have shaped his life and writing.

"Jim Goad doesn’t pull his punches. Brutally honest without worrying about being correct."—Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club"Jim Goad is an amazing writer."—Margaret Cho, Salon.comThe author of the notorious ‘zine ANSWER Me!, Shit Magnet (Feral House), and the best-selling Redneck Manifesto (Simon & Schuster) lampoons every imaginable aspect of human sexuality in 224 hilarious, illustrated, full-color, R-rated pages.Included are chapters like:• "Strange Sex Laws"• "The Cocks of Rock"• "Fun ‘n’ Obscure Sex Slang"• "Sex Toys That Time Forgot"• "Viagra for Masochists"• "I Always Vote for Bush"Jim Goad has contributed to Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, Bizarre, New York Press, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, and VICE. His controversial writing and life have been profiled in The New York Times, TIME, The Village Voice, and Spin. He lives in Pennsylvania.