[VIDEO] Author J.D. Vance on His New Book ‘Hillbilly Elegy’
Posted: November 12, 2016 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room, Think Tank | Tags: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, AK Steel Holding, Alt-right, Americans, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance, Peter Thiel, Rust Belt, United States, Yale Law School Leave a comment
J.D. Vance chronicles his life and the history and issues of hillbillies in America. Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, writes about growing up in a poor Rust Belt town and how his family never fully escapes the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma in their lives. Vance paints a broad, passionate, and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans.
