The Resource Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis, J.D. Vance
Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis, J.D. Vance
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 264 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062300546
- Label
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
- Title
- Hillbilly elegy
- Title remainder
- a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
- Statement of responsibility
- J.D. Vance
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Awards note
- New York Times Best Seller List.
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- T7B
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Vance, J. D
- Dewey number
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- 305.5/62089090092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HD8073.V37
- LC item number
- A3 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Vance, J. D
- Vance, J. D.
- Working class white people
- Working class white people
- Appalachian Region
- Mountain people
- Social mobility
- Label
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis, J.D. Vance
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-264)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn952097610
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 264 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062300546
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2016304613
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)952097610
- Label
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis, J.D. Vance
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-264)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn952097610
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 264 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062300546
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2016304613
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)952097610
Subject
- Social mobility -- United States -- Case studies
- Vance, J. D
- Vance, J. D. -- Family
- Working class white people -- United States -- Biography
- Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions
- Working class white people -- United States -- Social conditions
- Mountain people -- Kentucky -- Social conditions
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- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Politics and American History
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