Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis PDF
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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"You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist
"A riveting book."—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.
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