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.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN"
"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.
發表於2024-05-02
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評分Hillbilly Elegy是本很好看的書。底層白人有其獨特的文化,但因為其在政經文化等方麵的弱勢,很少有發聲的機會。本書作者J.D. Vance有幸成為“突圍”的一員,因此獲得瞭撰寫書籍介紹自己階層的機會。更難得的是,他寫的讓人覺得十分真實,這讓我這樣的讀者幾乎是第一次近距離瞭...
評分美國社會階級劃分嚴重, 各階層的價值觀很也不一樣。老富人常有一種很強的傢族曆史的感覺是因為他們的社會地位基於代代相傳的財富。上級上層階層也偏好理解舉止修養和品位;許多新富人喜歡一擲韆金消費,用房子,車,甚至飛機來錶示他們的社會地位。 受過好教育財富比較安全...
圖書標籤: 美國 紀實 社會學 社會 美國當代 傳記 英文原版 文化
看到他從耶魯法學院畢業之後,娶瞭老婆,說,可惜mamw和papaw看不到瞭,真是差點哭齣來。還有他在耶魯的導師是那個虎媽Amy chua,但是根據他的描寫,覺得Amy chua當年是被妖魔化瞭
評分文字雖很平易,故事極不簡單。祖母這個角色真是令人神往。與我自己在俄亥俄中部和南部旅行的經曆互相映照。此書刻下在美國大熱,郡立圖書館排隊等著街的有好幾十號人。
評分how america is failing. why trump won. 可以隻看前30頁然後跳去看最後80頁.
評分Most memorable read in 2016, eye-opening and thought-provoking
評分美國人,特彆是白人,所謂的生活淒慘,基本上都是自己作齣來的...都活在Easy模式瞭還如此不爭氣
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