Tag: Hillbilly Elegy

Refuge in resentment at forces beyond their control.

[from my 2016 Goodreads review] J.D. Vance was born in Kentucky hill country to a numerous family, one side of which was related to the infamous Hatfields of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. The coal mines played out and like many Kentuckians his family followed work to Middletown, Ohio. As Papaw knew when he was a young…

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…we hillbillies must wake the hell up.

Hillbilly Elegy is a different kind of memoir, one that serves a larger purpose and one that could not be more apropos in this election year. J.D. Vance was born in Kentucky hill country to a numerous family, one side of which was related to the infamous Hatfields of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. The coal mines…

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