Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J. D. Vance
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Recommended by 5 notable people, including Bill Gates and Ben Shapiro
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Recommended by 11 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Bill Gates, Most Recommended Books, and Nonfiction.
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 Books Recommended by Bill Gates, Most Recommended Books, and Nonfiction.
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