Description: Hillbilly Elegy A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance Hillbilly Elegy recounts J.D. Vance's powerful origin story... From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate for the 2024 election, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.'s grandparents were "dirt poor and in love," and moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country. This 272-page softcover is in like-new condition with all pages crisp, clean, and sturdily bound. The only thing that makes it not "new" is a small crease near the lower corner of the front cover and the following pages of the first two chapters. (Very light crease!) You won't be disappointed!I'm listing MANY other books/items. I'm happy to combine shipping when possible! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I normally mail ON the day I receive payment if it's received before 1 p.m. central time, and the next day if it's later than 1. Please take a look at my other listings; I'll be listing many school books (and others); I'm happy to combine shipping. Before you pay, put items in your cart, then "request total from seller". I will then weigh them together and send an invoice with a combined shipping price. All items coming from a smoke-free, pet-free home! Thanks so much for your time! Before leaving your feedback, if for any reason you feel I did not deserve or earn 5 stars in each category, please let me have the opportunity to make it right. I want every transaction to be 5-star worthy! Thanks so much! :)
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Book Title: Hillbilly Elegy : a Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Item Length: 8 in
Publication Year: 2018
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Author: J. D. Vance
Genre: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
Topic: United States / State & Local / General, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Economic Conditions, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociology / Rural
Item Weight: 8.8 Oz
Item Width: 5.3 in
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
