Vance, J. D.

Hillbilly Elegy A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis J. D. Vance (James David Vance) - U.S.A. HarperCollins 2018 - 272tr. paperback, illustration 20cm

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...

9780062300553


United States
Sociology
Family life
Biography

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