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.
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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.
美国社会阶级划分严重, 各阶层的价值观很也不一样。老富人常有一种很强的家族历史的感觉是因为他们的社会地位基于代代相传的财富。上级上层阶层也偏好理解举止修养和品位;许多新富人喜欢一掷千金消费,用房子,车,甚至飞机来表示他们的社会地位。 受过好教育财富比较安全...
评分在我年纪尚幼的时候,父母长辈孜孜不倦地为我灌输了一个理念,努力学习走出大山,再也不要淹没在农村的贫瘠和黄土里。我,以及身边许多年少的孩子都被灌输了类似的理念,于是我们中的大多数努力学习,小学,初中,高中,大学,我们试图用祖辈“鲤鱼跃龙门”的理念摆脱贫穷的阴...
评分“身份”是一个标签。一旦降生某个家庭、某个地区,你是乡下人,还是城里人?你是穷人,还是富人?你是底层、中层,还是上层?身份如影随形。终其一生,或能改变,而这改变的过程,通常是一曲悲歌。 对于J.D.万斯和他的家族,聊可欣慰,改变已经开始。这个1984年出生的乡下男孩...
评分Hillbilly Elegy是本很好看的书。底层白人有其独特的文化,但因为其在政经文化等方面的弱势,很少有发声的机会。本书作者J.D. Vance有幸成为“突围”的一员,因此获得了撰写书籍介绍自己阶层的机会。更难得的是,他写的让人觉得十分真实,这让我这样的读者几乎是第一次近距离了...
评分一篇长长长长的ps
评分看到他從耶魯法學院畢業之後,娶了老婆,說,可惜mamw和papaw看不到了,真是差點哭出來。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當年是被妖魔化了
评分太流水账了。
评分一个美国凤凰男的人生流水账
评分太流水账了。
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