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Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J. D. Vance
2018
Harper
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Book Review
Left Behind
J.D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" and Steven Stoll's "Ramp Hollow" both remind us that the history of poor and migratory people in Appalachia is a difficult story to tell.
by
Nancy Isenberg
via
New York Review of Books
on
June 28, 2018
Q&A
Appalachia Isn’t Trump Country
A region that outsiders love to imagine but can’t seem to understand.
by
Elizabeth Catte
,
Regan Penaluna
via
Guernica
on
March 7, 2018
Book Review
The Invention of the 'White Working Class'
A spate of new books explores the composition and motivations of the demographic that has been credited with electing Trump.
by
Andrew J. Perrin
via
Public Books
on
January 30, 2018
Book Review
The Mythical Whiteness of Trump Country
"Hillbilly Elegy" has been used to explain the 2016 election, but its logic is rooted in a dangerous myth about race in Appalachia.
by
Elizabeth Catte
via
Boston Review
on
November 7, 2017
Book Review
The Rage of White Folk
How the silent majority became a loud and angry minority.
by
Steven Hahn
via
The Nation
on
September 27, 2017
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That Ain't Cool
Capturing the 1968 DNC.
by
Sammy Feldblum
via
The Baffler
on
August 20, 2024