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Episode: Hillbilly Elegy Full Chapter Book Summary
Description: Hillbilly Elegy Full Chapter Book Summary More Content On Bookey Best Book Summary App. Â This is a memoir written by James David Vance, who was born in Middletown (also known as the Steel City), Ohio, located within the Rust Belt. Vance came from a Scottish-Irish working-class community plagued by poverty and poor social mobility. While most members of the community had been stuck at the bottom of the social ladder for generations, Vance graduated from Yale Law School and managed to move up the social ladder. This book not only recounts his journey t...