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Hillbilly Elegy a Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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2016 memoir by J. D. Vance

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

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family unit and Civilisation in Crunch is a 2016 memoir by J. D. Vance about the Appalachian values of his Kentucky family and their relation to the social problems of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where his mother's parents moved when they were young.

Summary [edit]

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

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

Alongside his personal history, Vance raises questions such equally the responsibility of his family and people for their ain misfortune. Vance blames hillbilly culture and its supposed encouragement of social rot. Insufficiently, he feels that economical insecurity plays a much lesser function. To lend credence to his argument, Vance regularly relies on personal experience. As a grocery store checkout cashier, he watched welfare recipients talk on prison cell phones although the working Vance could non afford one. His resentment of those who seemed to turn a profit from poor behavior while he struggled, especially combined with his values of personal responsibility and tough love, is presented every bit a microcosm of the reason for Appalachia'due south overall political swing from stiff Democratic Party to stiff Republican affiliations. Too, 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", every bit well as a co-worker, with a pregnant girlfriend, who would skip work.[1]

Publication [edit]

The book was popularized by an interview with the author published by The American Conservative in tardily July 2016. The volume 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'south publication.[1]

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

Reception [edit]

The book reached the meridian of The New York Times Best Seller list in August 2016[3] and Jan 2017.[4] Many journalists criticized Vance for generalizing too much from his personal upbringing in suburban Ohio.[5] [half-dozen] [7] [8]

American Bourgeois correspondent and blogger Rod Dreher expressed admiration for Hillbilly Elegy, saying that Vance "draws conclusions…that may be difficult for some people to take. But Vance has earned the right to brand those judgments. This was his life. He speaks with authority that has been extremely hard won."[9] The following calendar month, Dreher posted about why liberals loved the book.[10] New York Post columnist and editor of Commentary John Podhoretz described the book as amongst the year'due south most provocative.[11] The book was positively received by conservatives such equally National Review columnist Mona Charen[12] and National Review editor and Slate columnist Reihan Salam.[13]

Past 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 role racism played in the white working class's opposition to President Obama."[xiv] Sarah Jones of The New Republic mocked Vance equally "the faux prophet of Blueish America," dismissing him as "a flawed guide to this world" and the book as little more than "a listing of myths nearly welfare queens repackaged as a primer on the white working class."[6] The New York Times wrote that Vance'southward direct confrontation of a social taboo is admirable regardless of whether the reader agrees with his conclusions. The newspaper writes that Vance's subject field is despair, and his argument is more generous in that it blames fatalism and learned helplessness rather than indolence.[ane] Historian Bob Hutton wrote in Jacobin that Vance'due south statement relied on circular logic and eugenics, ignored existing scholarship on Appalachian poverty, and was "primarily a work of self-congratulation."[5] Sarah Smarsh with The Guardian noted that "nearly downtrodden whites are non conservative male Protestants from Appalachia" and called into question Vance's generalizations about the white working class from his personal upbringing.[7]

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 community riddled by drug addiction and instability." Vance's account anecdotally confirmed the report'south conclusion that family stability is essential to upward mobility.[15] The volume provoked a response in the class of an anthology, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll. The essays in the volume criticize Vance for making wide generalizations and reproducing myths about poverty.[8]

Film adaptation [edit]

A picture accommodation was released in select theaters in the United States on November 11, 2020, and so digitally on Netflix on November 24. It 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 volume'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] [20]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Senior, Jennifer (Baronial ten, 2016). "Review: In 'Hillbilly Elegy,' a Tough Love Assay of the Poor Who Dorsum Trump". The New York Times. Archived from the original on Oct 11, 2016. Retrieved October xi, 2016.
  2. ^ Heller, Karen (February half dozen, 2017). "'Hillbilly Elegy' made J.D. Vance the vox of the Rust Belt. But 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 cadre social-policy question of our fourth dimension". Business organization Insider. Archived from the original on February thirteen, 2017. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  4. ^ "Combined Impress & E-Book Nonfiction Books – Best Sellers – January 22, 2017". The New York Times. Archived from the original on Jan 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 (Nov 17, 2016). "J.D. Vance, the Simulated Prophet of Blue America". The New Republic. Archived from the original on March 17, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  7. ^ a b Smarsh, Sarah (Oct 13, 2016). "Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-course Americans". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on Apr eighteen, 2020. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
  8. ^ a b Garner, Dwight (February 25, 2019). "'Hillbilly Elegy' Had Stiff Opinions Virtually Appalachians. Now, Appalachians Render the Favor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on February 21, 2020. Retrieved April ii, 2020.
  9. ^ Dreher, Rod (July 11, 2016). "Hillbilly America: Practise White Lives Affair?". The American Conservative. Archived from the original on March 22, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  10. ^ Dreher, Rod (Baronial v, 2016). "Why Liberals Love 'Hillbilly Elegy'". The American Conservative. Archived from the original on October 12, 2016. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  11. ^ Podhoretz, John (October 16, 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'southward New Book Reveals Much nearly Trump & America". National Review. July 28, 2016. Archived from the original on March xviii, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  13. ^ "Reihan Salam on Twitter: "Very excited for @JDVance1. HILLBILLY ELEGY is fantabulous, and information technology'll be published in late June:"". Twitter. April thirty, 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's "Hillbilly Elegy" are already being used to gut the working poor". Salon. Archived from the original on March eighteen, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  15. ^ Eleanor Krause and Richard V. Reeves (2017) Rural Dreams: Upward Mobility in America's Countryside, pp.12–13. Brookings Institution. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/es_20170905_ruralmobility.pdf Archived December 6, 2020, at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ Williams, Trey (April 12, 2019). Shut%5d%5d plays a potent matriarch, Mamaw, who saves the hero./ "Ron Howard-Directed 'Hillbilly Elegy' Casts Gabriel Basso in Atomic number 82 Part". TheWrap. Archived from the original on May 13, 2019. Retrieved July v, 2019.
  17. ^ WKRC (April 16, 2019). "'Hillbilly Elegy' expected to be filmed locally; more bandage members sign on". Local 12/WKRC-TV. Archived from the original on Apr 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 State, The Conjuring 3, Waldo, Hillbilly Elegy, and more". Atlanta Magazine. Archived from the original on June 28, 2019. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  20. ^ Chandler, Tom (July iii, 2019). "Netflix to begin filming pic 'Ivan' in Macon". The Georgia Sun. Archived from the original on July five, 2019. Retrieved July five, 2019.

External links [edit]

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

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