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  <name><![CDATA[Jim Goad]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Goad started his writing career with the magazine &quot;ANSWER &lt;i&gt;Me!&lt;/i&gt;&quot; Which got connected with a tripple suicide by  British gothics and of the white house shooting of Francisco Martin Duran.

In 1998 he was convicted of abusing his girlfriend and was released in 2000. In prison he wrote his autobiography &quot;Shit Magnet&quot; 

Nowadays he lives with his wife and son in Atlanta. According his website Goad is now working on a book about the history of Nascar. 

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  <title><![CDATA[The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Answer Me!: The First Three]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Answer Me, #4]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Jim Goad's Gigantic Book of Sex]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Answer Me!]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jim Goad]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Trucker Fags in Denial #1]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Savage Kick]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Watts]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mark SaFranko]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Steve Hussy]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frank Baron]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joe Matt]]></name>
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