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

Vance lives in San Francisco with his wife and two dogs. Vance can be sent to the below: P.O. J.D. Author mail for J.D. A graduate of the Ohio State University and Yale Law School, he has contributed to the National Review and is a principal at a leading Silicon Valley investment firm. Vance grew up in the Rust Belt city of Middletown, Ohio, and the Appalachian town of Ja

But J.D. Here we find women and men who dearly love their country, yet who feel powerless as their way of life is devastated. (Reihan Salam, executive editor, National Review)“A beautifully and powerfully written memoir about the author’s journey from a troubled, addiction-torn Appalachian family to Yale Law School, Hillbilly Elegy is shocking, heartbreaking, gut-wrenching, and hysterically funny. It’s one of the best books I’ve ever read… The most important book of 2016. Imagine that.” (Jennifer Senior, New York Times)“Hillbilly Elegy is a beautiful memoir but it is equally a work of cultural criticism about white working-class America….Vance offers a compelling explanation for why it’s so hard for someone who grew up the way he did to make it

J. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD "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 TimesFrom a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a po

An edifying and inspiring, if also troubling at times, read. PNRLM There is a lot to take in here, even for someone that's seen this life up close in many of its many guises.While ostensibly about the particular culture of the West Virginia Scots-Irish underclass, anyone that has seen white poverty in America's flyover states will recognize much of what is written about here. It is a life on the very edge of plausibility, without the sense of extra-family community that serves as a stabilizing agent in many first-generation immigrant communities or comm. "An inside look at a world many of us know all too well." according to Kathleen Valentine. I spent most of the last 2 days reading this book and I can't stop thinking about it. I never heard of the author until I saw him on Morning Joe a few days ago but I looked him up and read several articles he wrote for various publications so I bought his book. He grew up in a family of what he describes as "hillbillies" from Kentucky but spent most of his life in Ohio. His family identified as being strongly Christian even though their behavior was frequently not particularly Christian.. Amazon Customer said This Harvard Law grad finally has a Yale man he can respect. I grew up without running water in Boone County, WV, and wound up with a degree from Harvard Law School. JD Vance's story brought me to tears and cheers, for he has told the story of my people.