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Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis / J.D. Vance. by Vance, J. D., author. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016 Description:  264 pages ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Summary:  From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, this book is a probing look at the struggles of America's white working class through the author's own story of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town. Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis -- that of poor, white Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for over forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. - Publisher. Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an 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 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. 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 their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance's grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. Genre:  Autobiographies   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Calmar Campus Library Circulation Stacks (Calmar) 305.562 Van 2016 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Calmar Campus Library Circulation Stacks (Calmar) 305.562 Van 2016 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Calmar Campus Library Circulation Stacks (Calmar) 305.562 Van 2016 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 305.5 Van 2016 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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