Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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“[A] compassionate, discerning sociological analysis…Combining thoughtful inquiry with firsthand experience, Mr. Vance has inadvertently provided a civilized reference guide for an uncivilized election, and he’s done so in a vocabulary intelligible to both Democrats and Republicans. Imagine that.†(Jennifer Senior, New York Times)“[Hillbilly Elegy] is a beautiful memoir but it is equally a work of cultural criticism about white working-class America….[Vance] offers a compelling explanation for why it’s so hard for someone who grew up the way he did to make it…a riveting book.†(Wall Street Journal)“[Vance’s] description of the culture he grew up in is essential reading for this moment in history.†(David Brooks, New York Times)“[Hillbilly Elegy] couldn’t have been better timed...a harrowing portrait of much that has gone wrong in America over the past two generations...an honest look at the dysfunction that afflicts too many working-class Americans.†(National Review)[A]n American classic, an extraordinary testimony to the brokenness of the white working class, but also its strengths. It’s one of the best books I’ve ever read… [T]he most important book of 2016. You cannot understand what’s happening now without first reading J.D. Vance. (Rod Dreher,The American Conservative)“J.D. Vance’s memoir, “Hillbilly Elegyâ€Â, offers a starkly honest look at what that shattering of faith feels like for a family who lived through it. You will not read a more important book about America this year.†(The Economist)“[A] frank, unsentimental, harrowing memoir...a superb book...†(New York Post)“The troubles of the working poor are well known to policymakers, but Vance offers an insider’s view of the problem.†(Christianity Today)“Vance movingly recounts the travails of his family.†(Washington Post)“What explains the appeal of Donald Trump? Many pundits have tried to answer this question and fallen short. But J.D. Vance nails it...stunning...intimate...†(Globe and Mail (Toronto))From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, 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 about as searingly from the inside. In HillbillyElegy, J.D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hanging around your neck.The Vance family story began with hope in postwar America. J.D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love†and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in
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