Description: THIS IS THE PAPERBACK EDITION 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, sister, 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.FREE SHIPPING is my choice of carrier. If you prefer a specific carrier, then an additional fee will be needed to cover the additional cost for shipping.
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Signed: No
Book Series: Historical
Ex Libris: No
Dimensions: 5.31 x 0.72 x 8 inches
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
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Paperback: 288 pages
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Era: 2010s
ISBN-13: 978-0062300553
ISBN-10: 9780062300553
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Book Title: Hillbilly Elegy : a Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: United States / State & Local / General, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Economic Conditions, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociology / Rural
Genre: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
Item Weight: 16.7 Oz
Author: J. D. Vance
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
