Hillbilly Elegy

Hillbilly Elegy

by J. D. Vance

6 mentors recommend this 272 pages

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 abo

ISBN: 9788365973047

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Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield

Business & Entrepreneurship

"Human, perceptive, loving, well-told."

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Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro

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"A very well-written book. [...] The whole thing is a critique of individual decisions."

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Bill Gates

Bill Gates

Business & Entrepreneurship

"I came away with new insights into the multifaceted cultural and family dynamics that contribute to poverty."

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Bill Nye

Bill Nye

Science & Research

"Provides the reader with insight into how the United States got into its current mess."

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