Hillbilly Elegy: The Internationally Bestselling Memoir from Trumps Future Vice-President of the United States

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER / OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD THE AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT'S ORIGIN STORYEssential reading for this moment in history New York Times'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist

Brilliant offers an acute insight into the reasons voters have put their trust in Trump Observer

J. D. Vance grew up in the hills of Kentucky. His family and friends were the people most of the world calls rednecks, hillbillies or white trash.

In this deeply moving memoir, Vance tells the story of his familys demons and of Americas problem with generational neglect. How his mother struggled against, but never fully escaped, the legacies of abuse, alcoholism, poverty and trauma. How his grandparents, dirt poor and in love, gave everything for their children to chase the American dream. How Vance beat the odds to graduate from Yale Law School. And how America came to abandon and then condescend to its white working classes, until they reached breaking point.

A beautiful memoir but it is equally a work of cultural criticism about white working-class America Vance offers a compelling explanation for why its so hard for someone who grew up the way he did to make it a riveting book Wall Street Journal

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Brilliant offers an acute insight into the reasons voters have put their trust in Trump Observer

Powerful and highly readable account of the light of the poor white Americans in Kentucky Financial Times

Essential reading for all yankophiles, politicians and anyone interested in how Donald Trump won over the rust belt to arrive at the White House Books of the Year, Sunday Times

The memoir gripping America Vividly articulates the despair and disillusionment of blue-collar America Sunday Times

A tough-edged elegy for white trash hillbilly America David Aaronovitch, The Times

Americas political system and the white working class have lost faith in each other. Hillbilly Elegy 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 Economist

Vances description of the culture he grew up in is essential reading for this moment in history David Brooks, New York Times

Clear-eyed and nuanced, a powerful antidote to the clamour of news The Times

With exquisite timing Vances Hillbilly Elegy offers something profound at this time of political populism a great insight into Trump and Brexit Ian Birrell, Independent

I bought this to try to better understand Trumps appeal to those white working-class people who feel left behind, but the memoir is so much more than that Its an important social history/commentary but also a gripping, unputdownable page-turner India Knight, Evening Standard

Author Bio

J.D. Vance grew up in the Rust Belt city of Middletown, Ohio, and the Appalachian town of Jackson, Kentucky. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school and served in Iraq. A graduate of the Ohio State University and Yale Law School, he has contributed to the National Review and the New York Times, and works as an investor at a leading venture capital firm. Vance lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his family.