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Hillbilly Elegy Full Book Summary. J.D. Vance’s book is both an autobiography and a description of hillbilly culture, the culture of his family. (“Hillbilly” is a term that some believe is offensive and some—including Vance—embrace.) Vance was raised mostly by his grandparents, whom he called Papaw and Mamaw.
May 1, 2018 · Hillbilly Elegy announces the arrival of a gifted and utterly original new writer and should be required reading for everyone who cares about what’s really happening in America.” — Amy Chua, New York Times bestselling author of The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Nov 24, 2020 · Hillbilly Elegy is a movie that’s best consumed in pieces, via YouTube highlights or awards reels. There’s just no making sense of it as a whole. The film is like a package of assorted chicken ...
Aug 10, 2016 · After reading “Hillbilly Elegy,” you can easily understand why. This is a historically peculiar election cycle, boisterously disrupted by outsiders, one of whom found the perfect host body in ...
May 1, 2018 · "Hillbilly Elegy" first landed on my reading list due to an article in my newsfeed that listed Vance's memoir as potential insight into the group that supposedly swung this year's election in favor of Donald Trump - poor, working-class whites in the country's rust belt.
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Hillbilly Elegy is first and foremost a memoir, but it also examines the Appalachian working class at large, often incorporating sociological studies to supplement Vance’s life story and proposing possible new ways of thinking about poverty. Although these efforts are too numerous to include here, it’s worth noting that Vance holds up ...
Vance tells readers that he isn’t a politician or the innovative founder of a billion-dollar company, so he didn’t write Hillbilly Elegy because of his accomplishments. Rather, he wrote the book to help people “understand what happens in the lives of the poor.”. Having grown up poor in an Ohio town in America’s Rust Belt, his ...
