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2016 memoir past J. D. Vance

Hillbilly Elegy
Hillbilly Elegy.jpg
Writer J. D. Vance
Language English
Subject Rural sociology, poverty, family drama
Published June 2016 (Harper Press)
Publisher Harper
Pages 264
Awards Audie Award for Nonfiction
ISBN 978-0-06-230054-6
OCLC 952097610
LC Course HD8073.V37

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a 2016 memoir by J. D. Vance well-nigh the Appalachian values of his Kentucky family and their relation to the social bug of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where his female parent'southward parents moved when they were young.

Summary [edit]

Vance describes his upbringing and family background while growing upward in the city of Middletown, Ohio, the third largest city in the Cincinnati metropolitan area. He writes about a family history of poverty and depression-paying, physical jobs that take since disappeared or worsened in their guarantees, and compares this life with his perspective after leaving it.

Though Vance was raised in Middletown, his female parent and her family unit were from Breathitt County, Kentucky. Their Appalachian values include traits like loyalty and love of country, despite social bug including violence and verbal abuse. He recounts his grandparents' alcoholism and corruption, and his unstable mother's history of drug addictions and failed relationships. Vance's grandparents eventually reconciled and became his de facto guardians. He was pushed by his tough merely loving grandmother, and somewhen Vance was able to leave Middletown to nourish Ohio State University and Yale Law School.[one]

Alongside his personal history, Vance raises questions such equally the responsibility of his family and people for their own misfortune. Vance blames hillbilly culture and its supposed encouragement of social rot. Comparatively, he feels that economical insecurity plays a much bottom role. To lend credence to his argument, Vance regularly relies on personal experience. Equally a grocery store checkout cashier, he watched welfare recipients talk on cell phones although the working Vance could not afford one. His resentment of those who seemed to profit from poor behavior while he struggled, especially combined with his values of personal responsibility and tough love, is presented as a microcosm of the reason for Appalachia's overall political swing from strong Autonomous Political party to strong Republican affiliations. Besides, he recounts stories intended to showcase a lack of work ethic including the story of a man who quit after expressing dislike over his job's hours and posted to social media about the "Obama economy", as well as a co-worker, with a meaning girlfriend, who would skip work.[1]

Publication [edit]

The book was popularized by an interview with the author published by The American Conservative in belatedly July 2016. The book of requests briefly disabled the website. Halfway through the adjacent month, The New York Times wrote that the title had remained in the top ten Amazon bestsellers since the interview's publication.[1]

Vance credits his Yale contract police professor Amy Chua as the "authorial godmother" of the book.[two]

Reception [edit]

The book reached the tiptop of The New York Times Best Seller list in August 2016[three] and January 2017.[4] Many journalists criticized Vance for generalizing as well much from his personal upbringing in suburban Ohio.[v] [half dozen] [7] [8]

American Conservative contributor and blogger Rod Dreher expressed adoration for Hillbilly Elegy, saying that Vance "draws conclusions…that may be difficult for some people to take. Just Vance has earned the correct to make those judgments. This was his life. He speaks with dominance that has been extremely hard won."[9] The following month, Dreher posted near why liberals loved the book.[x] New York Post columnist and editor of Commentary John Podhoretz described the book every bit among the year's most provocative.[eleven] The book was positively received past conservatives such equally National Review columnist Mona Charen[12] and National Review editor and Slate columnist Reihan Salam.[thirteen]

By contrast, Jared Yates Sexton of Salon criticized Vance for his "damaging rhetoric" and for endorsing policies used to "gut the poor." He argues that Vance "totally discounts the function racism played in the white working class's opposition to President Obama."[14] Sarah Jones of The New Republic mocked Vance as "the fake prophet of Blue America," dismissing him as "a flawed guide to this world" and the book as little more than than "a list of myths about welfare queens repackaged as a primer on the white working class."[6] The New York Times wrote that Vance's direct confrontation of a social taboo is admirable regardless of whether the reader agrees with his conclusions. The paper writes that Vance's subject is despair, and his argument is more generous in that it blames fatalism and learned helplessness rather than indolence.[1] Historian Bob Hutton wrote in Jacobin that Vance's argument relied on circular logic and eugenics, ignored existing scholarship on Appalachian poverty, and was "primarily a work of cocky-congratulation."[five] Sarah Smarsh with The Guardian noted that "about downtrodden whites are not bourgeois male Protestants from Appalachia" and called into question Vance'southward generalizations about the white working class from his personal upbringing.[seven]

A 2017 Brookings Institution report noted that, "JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy became a national bestseller for its raw, emotional portrait of growing upward in and eventually out of a poor rural customs riddled by drug habit and instability." Vance'southward account anecdotally confirmed the study'southward conclusion that family stability is essential to upwards mobility.[15] The book provoked a response in the form of an album, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll. The essays in the volume criticize Vance for making broad generalizations and reproducing myths near poverty.[8]

Pic accommodation [edit]

A film accommodation was released in select theaters in the United States on November 11, 2020, then digitally on Netflix on November 24. Information technology was directed by Ron Howard and stars Glenn Close, Amy Adams, Gabriel Basso[16] [17] and Haley Bennett. Although a few days of filming were planned for the book'due south setting of Middletown, Ohio,[18] much of the filming in the summer of 2019 was in Atlanta, Clayton and Macon, Georgia, using the code name "IVAN."[19] [xx]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Senior, Jennifer (Baronial 10, 2016). "Review: In 'Hillbilly Elegy,' a Tough Dearest Analysis of the Poor Who Back Trump". The New York Times. Archived from the original on Oct 11, 2016. Retrieved Oct 11, 2016.
  2. ^ Heller, Karen (February six, 2017). "'Hillbilly Elegy' made J.D. Vance the voice of the Rust Belt. Simply does he want that job?". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 25, 2020. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  3. ^ Barro, Josh (August 22, 2016). "The new memoir 'Hillbilly Elegy' highlights the core social-policy question of our time". Business Insider. Archived from the original on February thirteen, 2017. Retrieved March thirteen, 2017.
  4. ^ "Combined Print & Eastward-Volume Nonfiction Books – Best Sellers – January 22, 2017". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 27, 2017. Retrieved February 12, 2017.
  5. ^ a b "Hillbilly Elitism". jacobinmag.com. Archived from the original on May 7, 2020. Retrieved April two, 2020.
  6. ^ a b Jones, Sarah (November 17, 2016). "J.D. Vance, the False Prophet of Blue America". The New Republic. Archived from the original on March 17, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  7. ^ a b Smarsh, Sarah (October thirteen, 2016). "Unsafe idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-course Americans". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on April eighteen, 2020. Retrieved Apr nineteen, 2020.
  8. ^ a b Garner, Dwight (Feb 25, 2019). "'Hillbilly Elegy' Had Strong Opinions About Appalachians. Now, Appalachians Return the Favor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on February 21, 2020. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
  9. ^ Dreher, Rod (July eleven, 2016). "Hillbilly America: Do White Lives Matter?". The American Conservative. Archived from the original on March 22, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  10. ^ Dreher, Rod (August 5, 2016). "Why Liberals Dearest 'Hillbilly Elegy'". The American Conservative. Archived from the original on October 12, 2016. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  11. ^ Podhoretz, John (October sixteen, 2016). "The Truly Forgotten Republican Voter". Commentary. Archived from the original on February 25, 2017. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  12. ^ "Hillbilly Elegy: J.D. Vance's New Book Reveals Much about Trump & America". National Review. July 28, 2016. Archived from the original on March 18, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  13. ^ "Reihan Salam on Twitter: "Very excited for @JDVance1. HILLBILLY ELEGY is excellent, and it'll be published in tardily June:"". Twitter. April xxx, 2016. Archived from the original on April 17, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  14. ^ Jared Yates Sexton (March 11, 2017). "Hillbilly sellout: The politics of J. D. Vance'due south "Hillbilly Elegy" are already beingness used to gut the working poor". Salon. Archived from the original on March eighteen, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  15. ^ Eleanor Krause and Richard 5. Reeves (2017) Rural Dreams: Upward Mobility in America'southward Countryside, pp.12–13. Brookings Establishment. https://world wide web.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/es_20170905_ruralmobility.pdf Archived Dec 6, 2020, at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ Williams, Trey (April 12, 2019). Close%5d%5d plays a strong matriarch, Mamaw, who saves the hero./ "Ron Howard-Directed 'Hillbilly Elegy' Casts Gabriel Basso in Lead Function". TheWrap. Archived from the original on May thirteen, 2019. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  17. ^ WKRC (April 16, 2019). "'Hillbilly Elegy' expected to be filmed locally; more than bandage members sign on". Local 12/WKRC-TV. Archived from the original on April 17, 2019. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  18. ^ Kiesewetter, John (June 3, 2019). "Glenn Close, Amy Adams, Visit Middletown For 'Hillbilly Elegy' Coming together". WVXU Cincinnati Public Radio. Archived from the original on June 7, 2019.
  19. ^ Walljasper, Matt (June 27, 2019). "What's filming in Atlanta now? Lovecraft Country, The Conjuring three, Waldo, Hillbilly Elegy, and more". Atlanta Mag. Archived from the original on June 28, 2019. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  20. ^ Chandler, Tom (July 3, 2019). "Netflix to begin filming pic 'Ivan' in Macon". The Georgia Sunday. Archived from the original on July five, 2019. Retrieved July 5, 2019.

External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • C-Bridge Q&A interview with Vance on Hillbilly Elegy, October 23, 2016

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