- Format
- Bog, paperback
- Engelsk
- 272 sider
Normalpris
Medlemspris
- Du sparer kr. 30,00
- Fri fragt
Beskrivelse
Hillbilly Elegy recounts J.D. Vance's powerful origin story...
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate for the 2024 election, an incisive 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.
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"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
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported 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 one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his 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.
Detaljer
- SprogEngelsk
- Sidetal272
- Udgivelsesdato01-10-2024
- ISBN139780063438354
- Forlag HarperLargePrint
- FormatPaperback
- Udgave0
Størrelse og vægt
Anmeldelser
Ole R 24/05/2025
Mine forventninger blev gjort til skamme. Manden har jo humor…
Claus J 25/04/2025
Giver et interessant indblik i den amerikanske arbejderklasses genvordigheder - og i den meget aktuelle J.D. Vance’s baggrund.
Camilla J 16/11/2024
Læs denne bog, hvis du vil forstå, hvad der sker i USA og hvorfor så mange amerikanere stemmer på Trump. Det er en virkelig god bog!
Shane S 27/10/2024
Bogen giver et godt indblik i mentalitet af dem på bunden af det amerikanske samfund
Anette F 01/09/2024
For en dansker er denne bog et meget interessant indblik i hillbilly life - som vi kun kender i stereotyper og som mange af os møder med hovedrysten. Jeg blev klogere på denne gruppe af mennesker og har større indsigt i deres historie og deraf afledte verdenssyn. Faktisk kom jeg helt til at holde af de karakterer Vance kærligt portrætterer og vil møde dem med mindre fordømmelse i fremtiden. At forfatteren sidenhen har taget en mere rabiat politisk drejning, skal ikke stå værket til last.
Søren G 17 31/07/2024
Mange gode pointer om folk, der ikke klarer sig godt (aka 'tabere'). Pointerne gælder i vid udstrækning også for Danmark og fortæller at der er væsentlige grænser for hvad det offentlige sektor/det politiske system kan gøre.
Henrik Z 21/07/2024
Fremragende og nærværende. Utrolig indsigtsfuldt og tankevækkende.
Ulla D 6 19/01/2018
This book was hard to get through. Took me a month even though it's fairly short and well written. I thought I'd be interested but there wasn't really anything here that surprised me or anything new. Kid grows up in tough circumstances, survives and is able to climb the social ladder because he is lucky to have people (his Mamaw and Papaw are pretty awesome characters) in his life that genuinely care about him and support him, and because he joins the US military. Yet, he seems to be a republican voter who doesn't think that a more even distribution of wealth might be the ticket to better circumstances for his people. For heaven's sake, he argues among other things that payday loans are great for poor people and no legislation is needed to protect them. Wtf? For him, it comes down to everyone toughening up and doing better by their kids. Micro-level solutions to macro-level problems. Yawn!