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050	0	0	_aHD8073.V37 _bA3 2016
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100	1		_aVance, J.D.
245	1	0	_aHillbilly elegy : _ba memoir of a family and culture in crisis _c/ J.D. Vance
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York _b: HarperCollins Publishers _c, 2016
300			_a264 pages _c; 24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references pages 263-264.
520			_aVance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. 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. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.'s grandparents were "dirt poor and in love," and moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance's grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America.
546			_aEnglish.
600	1	4	_aVance, J.D.
600	1	4	_aVance, J.D. _x-Family
650		4	_aWorking class whites _z-United States _v--Biography
650		4	_aWorking class whites _z-United States _x-Social conditions
650		4	_aMountain people _z-Kentucky _x-Social conditions.
650		4	_aSocial mobility _z-United States _v--Case studies.
651		4	_aAppalachian Region _v--Economic conditions.
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