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1) Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

Author

Vance, J. D

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Book, CD, eAudiobook, Large Print

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"Part memoir, part historical and social analysis, J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy is a fascinating consideration of class, culture, and the American dream. Vance's grandparents were "dirt poor and in love." They got married and moved north from Kentucky to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. Their grandchild (the author) graduated from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving upward mobility for...

2) The Appalachians: a land shaped by the people, a people shaped by the land

Pub. Date

c2005

3) Hillbilly Elegy : (Softbound): a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

Author

Vance, J. D

Pub. Date

2018.

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"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 more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. In Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when...

4) Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

Author

Stoll, Steven

Pub. Date

[2017]

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In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, and why it matters. He begins with the earliest European settlers, whose desire for vast forests to hunt in was frustrated by absentee owners-including George Washington and other founders-who laid claim to the region. Even as Daniel Boone became famous as a backwoods hunter and guide, the economy he represented was already in peril. Within just a few decades, Appalachian...