Hillbilly Elegy is set in the 1980s ... author Jennifer Senior called the book “a compassionate, discerning sociological analysis of the white underclass that has helped drive the politics ...

J.D. Vance, 39, was only 31 when he published “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and ... And my heart went out to its young author. In the book, Vance explored the grim reality of the ...

"Hillbilly Elegy" later turned into a Netflix feature film of the same name. The movie inspired by Vance's book released to ...

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Pic: Reuters This is how JD Vance took his experiences as a self-proclaimed hillbilly ... bestselling book and propel himself to the top of politics. In his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, Mr Vance ...