Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis / J.D. Vance.

Vance, 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...

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Main Author: Vance, J. D. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
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