Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2018 - Biography & Autobiography - 379 pages

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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 frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside.

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About the author (2018)

J.D. Vance grew up in Middletown, Ohio, and Jackson, Kentucky. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school and served for four years in Iraq. He is a graduate of the Ohio State University (2007-2009) Political Science and Philosophy, Summa Cum Laude and Yale Law School, Doctor of Law (J.D.) (2010-2013). He has contributed to the National Review and is the author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. He is also a principal at a leading Silicon Valley investment firm.

Bibliographic information

TitleHillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Thorndike Press large print basic
AuthorJ. D. Vance
Editionlarge print
PublisherThorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2018
ISBN1432840002, 9781432840006
Length379 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / General
Business & Economics / Economic Conditions
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General
Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness
Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Sociology / Rural
  
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