Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
Title
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Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
Author
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Vance, J. D., author.
ISBN
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9780062300546
Edition
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First edition.
Physical Description
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264 pages ; 24 cm
Personal Subject
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Vance, J. D.
Vance, J. D.-Family.
Subject Term
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Working class white people -- United States -- Biography.
Working class white people -- United States -- Social conditions.
Mountain people -- Kentucky -- Social conditions.
Social mobility -- United States
Geographic Term
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Appalachian Region -- Economic conditions.
Summary
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Hillbilly 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 been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
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Bayport Public Library | 305.562 VAN | Nonfiction Collection |
Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake) | 305.562 VAN | Checked Out |
Oakdale Library | 305.562 VAN | Nonfiction Collection |
Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove) | 305.562 VAN | Nonfiction Collection |
Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove) | 305.562 VAN | Nonfiction Collection |
Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove) | 305.562 VAN | Checked Out |
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury) | 305.562 VAN | Nonfiction Collection |
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury) | 305.562 VAN | Nonfiction Collection |
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury) | 305.562 VAN | Nonfiction Collection |
Stillwater Public Library | 305.562 VAN | Nonfiction Collection |
Stillwater Public Library | 305.562 VAN | Nonfiction Collection |
Stillwater Public Library | 305.562 VAN | Nonfiction Collection |
Valley Library (Lakeland) | 305.562 VAN | Nonfiction Collection |
Wildwood Library (Mahtomedi) | 305.562 VAN | Hold |