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

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«Hillbilly Elegy» is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis-that of white working-class Americans.The Vance family story begins hopefully in post-war 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 succes

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