by: J.D. Vance
This book was very well written, engaging and though provoking. My main takeaway: The reader receives a bird’s eye real life view into the power of family, love and a foundational marriage and its generational impact on culture and society. Through Vance’s first hand account, we all get a glimpse of the positive impact we can all make on those around us.
“From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class through the author’s own story of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town.
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of poor, white Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for over forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. In HillbillyElegy, J.D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hanging around your neck….
A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.”
This book was very well written, engaging and though provoking. My main takeaway: The reader receives a bird’s eye real life view into the power of family, love and a foundational marriage and its generational impact on culture and society as a whole. Through Vance’s first hand account, we all get a glimpse of the positive impact we can all make on those around us.