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Conservatismin the United States. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a 2016 memoir by JD Vance about the Appalachian values of his family from Kentucky and the socioeconomic problems of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where his mother's parents moved when they were young.
- J. D. Vance
- 2016
Jan 9, 2016 · 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.
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- Hardcover
- J.D. Vance
Jun 28, 2016 · Never before have I read a memoir so powerful, and so necessary. (Reihan Salam, executive editor, National Review)^“A beautifully and powerfully written memoir about the author’s journey from a troubled, addiction-torn Appalachian family to Yale Law School, Hillbilly Elegy is shocking, heartbreaking, gut-wrenching, and hysterically funny ...
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- $23.34
- J. D. Vance
- Harper
Jun 28, 2016 · 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.
- 2016
- J. D. Vance
“A beautifully and powerfully written memoir about the author’s journey from a troubled, addiction-torn Appalachian family to Yale Law School, Hillbilly Elegy is shocking, heartbreaking, gut-wrenching, and hysterically funny. It’s also a profoundly important book, one that opens a window on a part of America usually hidden from view and offers genuine hope in the form of hard-hitting ...
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- J. D. Vance
Jun 28, 2016 · Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. Hillbilly Elegy. : Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing ...
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Jan 1, 2020 · A lot of the mentalities are the same. Of course, we can't carry guns, but piss off a Bubba and fists will most likely fly. Hillbilly justice exists here too. You shoot off your mouth and catch a beating, then you got what you deserve. The law sees it the same way too.
- J. D. Vance
