02643cam a2200397 i 4500001001000000003000600010005001700016008004100033010001700074020003000091020002700121035002100148040001300169042001400182043003000196082000600226100002600232245008000258250001800338264007500356264001100431300002300442336002600465337002800491338002700519504005600546520132200602600001601924600002501940650005101965650005902016650004902075650004902124651004402173655002802217952097610OCoLC20250716111128.0160912s2016    nyu      b    000 0aeng d  a  2016304613  a9780062300546q(hardback)  a0062300547q(hardback)  a(OCoLC)952097610  cnmtdAJM  alccopycat  an-us---an-usa--an-us-ky  aB1 aVance, J. D.,eauthor10aHillbilly elegy :ba memoir of a family and culture in crisis /cJ.D. Vance  aFirst edition 1aNew York, NY :bHarper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,c[2016] 4c©2016  a264 pages ;c24 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 263-264)  aVance, 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. J. D.'s grandparents were "dirt poor and in love," and moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance's grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America10aVance, J. D10aVance, J. D.xFamily 0aWorking class whiteszUnited StatesvBiography 0aWorking class whiteszUnited StatesxSocial conditions 0aMountain peoplezKentuckyxSocial conditions 0aSocial mobilityzUnited StatesvCase studies 0aAppalachian RegionxEconomic conditions 7aAutobiographies.2lcgft