Hillbilly Elegy. A memoir of a family and culture in crisis

Abstract or Introduction

Zusammenfassung zum Buch "A LONG WAY DOWN" mit zusätzlicher Analyse verschiedener Passagen im Buch.

James David Vance's maternal family comes from Breathitt County and moved to Middletown in the Rust Belt, where Vance grew up in a working-class family that lost its foothold through economic change, unemployment, divorce and drug use. Thanks to a firm will of his grandmother, Vance was able to graduate from school and leave town. At the age of 18, he did military service with the Marines. He studied at Ohio State University and graduated as a Juris Doctor at Yale Law School in 2013.
Vance works as a financial manager in an investment firm in San Francisco that belongs to a group of companies founded by Peter Thiel. In 2016, Vance published the following autobiographical book on his family's history and its social and economic problems.