01938cam a2200313 4500 1680569895 TxAuBib 20241029120000.0 241015t20242016||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9780063438354 $34.00 0063438356 $34.00 KyBuM KyBuM TxAuBib Vance, J. D. Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis / J.D. Vance. 1st Harper Large Print ed. New York, NY : Harper Large Print, [2024] ©2016. 359 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. "From growing up in a poor Rust Belt town to graduating from Yale Law School, J.D. Vance offers passionate analysis of a culture in crisis--and an unlikely personal journey that informed and transformed him into a senator from Ohio and President Donald Trump's running mate. The Vance family story began with hope 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. But as the saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s family struggled with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of alcoholism, poverty, and trauma characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his family history"--Back cover. 20241029. Vance, J. D. Vance, J. D. Family. Working class United States Biography. Working class United States Social conditions. Mountain people Kentucky Social conditions. Large print books. Appalachian Region Economic conditions. Biographies. fast