JD Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” ignores the real Appalachian crisis it portrays
July 20, 2024 at 13:03 PM EDT
I started reading JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" on election day, 2020. I didn’t plan it this way. I’d been asked to review the film and I felt that I should read the book beforehand and Tuesday, November 3, 2020 is when the book arrived. Up until then, I had pointedly avoided reading … Source