Hillbilly Elegy
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'Hillbilly Elegy' Revisited August 05, 2024
No sooner had J. D. Vance been chosen as Donald Trump’s running mate and anointed as the future of MAGA that attention turned to his phenomenally successful, best-selling book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, first publis...
Was 'Hillbilly Elegy' Ever Good? July 18, 2024
What I’ve always remembered most clearly from J.D. Vance’s bestselling memoir, 2016’s Hillbilly Elegy, is its scorching descriptions of the lies that the working-class rural white Americans he grew up among tell themselves. An account of his chaotic ...
