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Vividly articulates the despair and disillusionment of blue-collar America' Sunday Times 'Hillbilly Elegy' is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis-that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance...
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Summary of Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance | Includes Analysis Preview: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by JD Vance is an account of the struggles of white working-class Americans in the post-industrial United States. The author offers a message of hope by telling the story of how he went from growing up poor in Ohio's Rust Belt to graduating from Yale Law School. James David (JD) Vance's family is of Scots-Irish descent....
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Hillbilly Elegy By J.D VanceThe desire for power is a fundamental human behavior. When one feels that he has no power over others or events, he is likely to be depressed. Everyone wants power. Those who pretend to have no desire for power are either deceiving themselves or attempting to deceive others. Power is like a drug that makes you stronger each time you taste it. The more you get, the more you want. Even though it is a fundamental human...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Hillbilly Elegy tells you what you need to know-before or after you read J.D. Vance's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Hillbilly Elegy includes: Historical context; Chapter-by-chapter overviews; Character profiles; Important quotes; Fascinating trivia;...
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"A debut memoir of grit and tenacity, as one young woman returns to the conservative hometown she always longed to escape to earn a living in the steel mill that casts a shadow over Cleveland. Steel is the only thing that shines in the belly of the mill... To ArcelorMittal Steel Eliese is known as #6691: Utility Worker, but this was never her dream. Fresh out of college, eager to leave behind her conservative hometown and come to terms with her Christian...
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An unprecedented and heartfelt memoir that illuminates the lives of rural Chinese workers, offering a portrait of generational strife, family, love, and loss that crosses cultures and time.
Cai Chongda spent his childhood in a rural fishing village in Fujian province. When his father-a former communist gang leader turned gas station owner-has a stroke that partially paralyzes him, his responsibilities fall to Cai, his only son.
Assuming his new role...
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The post-2016 election era in the United States is commonly presumed to be an era of crisis. Reclaiming Time argues that the narratives used to make this crisis a meaningful national story (e.g., Hillbilly Elegy, Strangers in Their Own Land) are not only gendered and racialized but also give a thin account of time, one so superficial as to make the future unimaginable. Examining the work of feminist theorists, performance artists, writers, and activists-from...
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Boll Weevil is a lyrical portrait of a changing American South. A brash young lawyer returns to his rural South Georgia hometown seeking to gain political foothold by challenging the long-standing County Commissioner for his seat. The young politician soon realizes how little he understands the place and people he seeks to represent. To win, he must first confront his own misapprehensions about a society from which he has long been separated. Second,...
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One doctor's courageous fight to save a small town from a silent epidemic that threatened the community's future-and exposed a national health crisis.
When Dr. Will Cooke, an idealistic young physician just out of medical training, set up practice in the small rural community of Austin, Indiana, he had no idea that much of the town was being torn apart by poverty, addiction, and life-threatening illnesses. But he soon found himself at the crossroads...
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'He was a man of the frontier, self-made but appreciative of those who gave him their loyalty and support. He was, pure and simple, and American...'
He was controversial in his time-and even more controversial in our own. Indian fighter, ardent patriot, hero of the War of 1812, the very embodiment of America's democratic and frontier spirit, Andrew Jackson was an iconic figure.
Today, Jackson is criticized and reviled – condemned as a slave-owner,...
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Success in Hill Country is a collection of oral histories told by entrepreneurs, artists, educators, doctors, and athletes from Appalachia who have achieved the American dream. Utilizing the power of the mind to overcome obstacles, and positively influenced by their mountain culture, these individuals tell their inside stories of success.
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You might have passed through there, maybe. Out for a drive with time on your hands you might have noticed the abandoned homestead shacks crumbling along a grid of dirt tracks scraped into this corner of the Mojave Desert. Wonder Valley. It's a place peopled by a menagerie of misfits and miscreants, artists and retirees, meth-heads and the otherwise marginalized. They live in the derelict cabins, fixing them up, some, or just making do in others.
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With the urgency and passion of Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me), the seductive storytelling of J.D. Vance (Hillbilly Elegy) and the historical rigour of Carol Anderson (White Rage), Kamal Al-Solaylee explores the in-between space that brown people occupy in today's world: on the cusp of whiteness and the edge of blackness. Brown proposes a cohesive racial identity and politics for the millions of people from the Global South and provides...
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One of the Last Great Memoirs of the Greatest Generation: A Tennessee Back-Hills Boy Comes of Age on the Battlefields of Nazi Germany This memoir is an epic tale in the classic sense: the coming of age of a boy, a region, and an entire nation as World War II is, fought and won. Immersive and richly detailed, it is an uplifting true story and a reminder of the priceless gifts handed down from one generation to another. Taken from transcribed interviews...
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This book is a chapter by chapter study of the Biblical books of Daniel and Revelation written by a layman for laymen. It begins with the "time of trouble" mentioned in Daniel 12:1 and ends with the earth being brought back into harmony with the Universe. Specific events together with specific timing are given and not presented in such a manner that one never knows whether what is foretold happened or not. "The time of trouble" begins on April 4,...
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What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this important book that illuminates the lives of America's forgotten black working-class men and women.
Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present,...
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"One of Project Syndicate's Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Kermal Dervi )" Carol Graham is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and College Park Professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy. Her books include The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being and Happiness around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires.
How the optimism gap between rich and poor is creating...