Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Ethnic Demographic Studies

Author: J.D. Vance

From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working classHillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has….Read More

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