Search results
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.
Jun 28, 2016 · In Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hanging around your neck. The Vance family story began with hope in postwar America.
Jul 16, 2024 · “Hillbilly Elegy” tells the story of a childhood plagued by abuse, alcoholism and poverty. It follows Vance’s white, working-class family from his grandparents in Kentucky’s...
Jul 16, 2024 · Before J.D. Vance became the Republican vice-presidential nominee or even ventured into politics, he was best known as the author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” a memoir about growing up in the Rust...
May 1, 2018 · Part memoir, part cultural commentary, Hillbilly Elegy pulls from Vance's rural upbringing and examines the white working class in Appalachia, along with their gradual descent into discontent.
Jun 28, 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 ...
Jan 12, 2023 · So few in poverty make it, but if there is just one person willing to make a difference for a child, that could be ALL the difference. Vance admits he carries demons - and he fights them, but he recognizes them for what they are: The product of a troubled childhood.
- www.amazon.com
- › …
- › Politics & Social Sciences
- › Social Sciences
Jun 28, 2016 · Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their 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.
Aug 29, 2018 · In HILLBILLY ELEGY, J.D. Vance confronts us with the economic and spiritual travails of this forgotten corner of our country. Here we find women and men who dearly love their country, yet who feel powerless as their way of life is devastated.
16 hours ago · Jessica Winter writes that J. D. Vance’s memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” misses a few details that complicate the story upon which Vance has based much of his politics.
