Hillbilly Elegy

J.D. Vance grew up in the Rust Belt city of Middletown, Ohio, and the Appalachian town of Jackson, Kentucky. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school and served in Iraq. A graduate of the Ohio State University and Yale Law School, he has contributed to the National Review and is a principal at a leading Silicon Valley investment firm. Vance lives in San Francisco with his wife and two dogs.

出版者:Harper

作者:J. D. Vance

页数:272

出版时间:2016-6-28

价格:USD 27.99

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780062300546

图书标签:美国纪实社会学社会美国当代传记英文原版文化

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"You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist

"A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal

"Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times

From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful 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

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 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. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history.

A deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.

读后感

罗曼·罗兰曾经说过，从来没有人为了读书而读书，人们只是在书中读自己、发现自己和检查自己。这话就回忆录的写作来说也是适合的，特别是在作者在书中检视自己成长经历和童年创伤的片段，不可避免地带来主观的臆测和偏见，但这种书写角度恰恰给予我们一个难得的观察路径，一方...  

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用户评价

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美国人，特别是白人，所谓的生活凄惨，基本上都是自己作出来的...都活在Easy模式了还如此不争气

how america is failing. why trump won. 可以只看前30頁然後跳去看最後80頁.

Most memorable read in 2016, eye-opening and thought-provoking