Hillbilly Elegy <subTitle>A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Vance, J. D.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">3:2</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>HarperCollins</publisher> <dateIssued>2018</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>272tr.</extent> <extent>paperback, illustration</extent> <extent>20cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>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...</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">J. D. Vance (James David Vance)</note> <subject> <topic>United States</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Sociology</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Family life</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Biography</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">305.562092</classification> <classification authority="ddc">V222-J27</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780062300553</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/16359/10.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/16359/10.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2025-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071604.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>