A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J. D. Vance
Recommended by 5 notable people, including Bill Gates and Ben Shapiro
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Recommended by 11 sources and appears in Memoirs, Books Recommended by Bill Gates, and Most Recommended Books.
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 Americas white working classHillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisisthat of white workingclass Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic o...
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Recommended by 11 sources and appears in Memoirs, Books Recommended by Bill Gates, and Most Recommended Books.
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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