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Project 2025 is the road map for a second Trump administration. There might be lots of attractive sights along the drive, but the destination is an ugly and embittered America that is largely ...
Robert Benjamin Hicks III (January 30, 1951 – February 25, 2022) was an American author. He wrote the New York Times bestseller The Widow of the South and has played a major role in preserving the historic Carnton mansion, a focal point in the Battle of Franklin which occurred on November 30, 1864.
Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt, is Goad's second book. Major New York publishing houses declined to publish Shit Magnet, [10] and it was published in 2002 by Feral House. The book, written while Goad was in prison, is an autobiography. It examines Goad's childhood, teenage years, his relationships with ...
The book was aimed at undergraduate students, other readers appreciated its qualities. For example, historian George Fort Milton admired Hicks's "capacity for extraordinary compression without at the same time either getting the style too bare-bones for pleasurable reading; or the facts too black-and-white for the necessary implications of ...
Ray Hicks was born on August 29, 1922, in Banner Elk, North Carolina. He was the fourth of 11 children [4] of Nathan and Rena Hicks. [5] He had Cherokee ancestry, traced through his great-grandmother. [6] Storytelling and ballad-singing were a big part of life with the Hicks family. Ray was in the eighth generation of family storytellers. [4]
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In 1959, Hicks penned his first children's book, First Boy on the Moon, which was dubbed Best Juvenile Book of the Year by the Friends of American Writers. The next year, he wrote The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald, [1] the first of a series of books about a boy who relies on his "Magnificent Brain" to solve problems. [2]
The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies Hicks and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats is a 1997 book by the American author Jim Goad, in which he delineates some of his views about what he sees to be the disenfranchisement of lower-class white people, and how certain aspects of American society, such as racism and sexism, cover what he sees as a deeper concern relating to class conflict.