Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Pdf Summary
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, sister, 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.
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About J.D. Vance Author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Pdf Book
J.D. Vance Author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Pdf Book is an investor, a political and public policy commentator, and a bestselling author. Raised by his working class grandparents in Middletown, Ohio, J.D. graduated from Middletown High School in 2003 and then enlisted in the Marine Corps. He deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. After graduating from Ohio State University where he studied Political Science and Philosophy, he studied at Yale Law School. Vance earned his law degree in 2013.
He serves as a principal at the leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm Mithril Capital. He is a partner at Revolution and works on Rise of the Rest, a nationwide effort to work closely with entrepreneurs. He returned to Ohio to found “Our Ohio Renewal,” a nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing the state’s opioid crisis.
Vance splits his time between Columbus, Ohio, and Washington, D.C. He is married to one of his former law school classmates, Usha, an Indian-American who is a law clerk to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. The couple has one son, Ewan, born on 4 June, 2017.
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- ASIN : 0062300547
- Publisher : Harper; Reprint edition (June 28, 2016)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780062300546
- ISBN-13 : 978-0062300546
- Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.3 x 1 x 9.2 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #35,962 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #29 in Poverty
- #40 in Sociology of Class
- #1,587 in Memoirs (Books)
- Customer Reviews: 4.5 out of 5 stars 29,387 ratings
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