Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance’s bestselling memoir, strikes a delicate balance between family history and cultural commentary. In the book, Vance draws on his memories of an unstable family in a stagnant small town to paint a vivid picture of the culture of “working-class white Americans of Scots-Irish descent who have no college degree” better known as “hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash.”
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Charlie Clark is the executive director of the Eleazar Wheelock Society.
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