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

Description: Business is our speciality NEW Hillbilly Elegy: a Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis FEATURES Hillbilly Elegy recounts J.D. Vance's powerful origin story... From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate for the 2024 election, an incisive 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 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "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 Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. 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 one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country. Publisher Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (May 1, 2018) Paperback 192 pages Dimensions 5.31 x 0.72 x 8 inches Language English Item Weight 2.31 pounds ISBN-10 9780062300553 ISBN-13 978-0062300553 0.72 inches x 5.31 inches x 8.0 inches. Weight: 2.31 lb Ask us anyhting Free shipping PAYMENT We accept all payments via Ebay using Credit Cards , PAYPAL , Apple Pay and many others SHIPPING We are always working hard to ensure your package arrives as soon as possible. Please understand that some factors like weather, high postal traffic, and the performance of shipping companies are outside of our control. DELIVERY & RETURN POLICY We offer a 30-Day Return Policy on items in which you are not completely satisfied with. You have the option of a full-refund or an exchange of the item. No returns are available on items shipped outside of the USA.

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