J. D. Vance Libros

A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016 and soon to be a major motion picture, this passionate analysis delves into the crisis of white working-class Americans. The decline of this demographic, ongoing for over forty years, is explored with striking honesty from an insider's perspective. The author recounts his family's journey, beginning in post-war America when his grandparents, "dirt poor and in love," moved from Kentucky's Appalachia to Ohio in search of a better life. They raised a middle-class family, and the author eventually graduated from Yale Law School, a symbol of their success in achieving upward mobility. However, the narrative reveals a deeper, more complex reality. Despite their efforts, Vance's family struggled with the burdens of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma, unable to fully escape their past. The author poignantly illustrates how he continues to grapple with the demons of his chaotic family history. Blending humor with vivid characters, this deeply moving memoir offers a compelling exploration of what upward mobility truly feels like and serves as a troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for many in the country.

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--Publisher's website

From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful 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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