The book reached the top of The New York Times Best Seller list in August 2016 and January 2017. Many journalists criticized Vance for generalizing too much from his personal upbringing in suburban Ohio. The book was positively received by conservatives such as National Review columnist Mona Charen and National Review editor and Slate columnist Reihan Salam.
About Hillbilly Elegy in brief
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis 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. The book reached the top of The New York Times Best Seller list in August 2016 and January 2017. Many journalists criticized Vance for generalizing too much from his personal upbringing in suburban Ohio. Vance credits his Yale contract law professor Amy Chua as the “authorial godmother” of the book. The book was positively received by conservatives such as National Review columnist Mona Charen and National Review editor and Slate columnist Reihan Salam.
By contrast, Jared Yates Sexton of Salon criticizes Vance for his “damaging rhetoric” and for endorsing policies used to ‘gut the poor’ The New Republic mocked Vance as ‘the false prophet of Blue America’ and dismissed him as ‘a flawed guide to this world’ The Brookings Institution noted that Vance’s account of growing up in a poor rural community riddled by drug addiction and instability confirmed the conclusion of a report that most downtrodden whites are not conservative Protestants from Appalachia.
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