Author: Ohio State University. Alumni AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Ohio State University Monthly
Author: Ohio State University. Alumni AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Ohio State University Monthly
Author: Ohio State University. Alumni AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
OAR Cumulative Index of Research Results
Author: United States. Air Force. Office of Aerospace ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
OAR Cumulative Index of Research Results
Author: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Maryland School Bulletin
Author: OAR Quarterly Index of Current Research Results
Author: United States. Air Force. Office of Aerospace ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Subject Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental StudiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Hillbilly Elegy
Author: J. D. VancePublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062300563
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "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.
Popular Science
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Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.