J. D. Vance · 2016
A memoir examining working-class white family life and social mobility in Appalachia.
Peter Shamshiri criticizes it as a pernicious work that maligns poor people and functions as a roadmap for political ambition.
A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
None yet.
Speakers who argue against the book or name its limits.
“I know that the book made the argument that we have to understand rural whites so that they can run for Senate and take our rights away.”
Why: The hosts argue the book is pernicious and maligns poor people, functioning as a roadmap for political ambition.
Peter Shamshiri, Host on If Books Could KillBreaking News Re-Release: "Hillbilly Elegy"
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