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发表于2024-12-25
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN"
"You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist
"A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal
"Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility.
But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance’s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history.
A deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
J.D. Vance grew up in the Rust Belt city of Middletown, Ohio, and the Appalachian town of Jackson, Kentucky. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school and served in Iraq. A graduate of the Ohio State University and Yale Law School, he has contributed to the National Review and is a principal at a leading Silicon Valley investment firm. Vance lives in San Francisco with his wife and two dogs.
看多了这种又烂又穷又作的人已经无感了。生在美国已经是easy mode了,抓住点机会努努力就能比全世界大部分人过得好,你混成这个样子又能怪谁呢。。。。They call them hillbilly, red neck, and white trash. I call them neighborhood, friends, and family.
评分how america is failing. why trump won. 可以只看前30頁然後跳去看最後80頁.
评分在我們常常讀到的故事裡,每個親歷困窘與絕境的孩子,都曾經被他/她善良堅韌的祖母或外祖母拯救,J.D.Vance的故事也不例外。
评分美国人,特别是白人,所谓的生活凄惨,基本上都是自己作出来的...都活在Easy模式了还如此不争气
评分算是比较客观的描写美国白人社会下层生活的状况,对于一些问题的阐述真是大开眼界。虽然作者骨子里还是有种对自己upward mobility的洋洋自得,但也从反面看出今天大选non-educated white对于Trump的疯狂从何而来。作者在另一社会阶层的out of place我也是深有同感,越在美国呆的久越觉得美国社会完全不是个熔炉,而是个大拼盘,各占一隅各有各的问题。
我有那么多的理想,我还有那么大力量,我要改变世界,任凭我想象。 然后隔壁老张对我讲,年轻时他和我一样狂。 《乡下人的悲歌》是一部真实的“美国梦”作品,和我们之前幻想的遍地黄金,自由平等不同,他揭示的不仅是真实的美国阶级社会,还有酒精、毒品、贫富差异等充斥的混...
评分 评分美国社会阶级划分严重, 各阶层的价值观很也不一样。老富人常有一种很强的家族历史的感觉是因为他们的社会地位基于代代相传的财富。上级上层阶层也偏好理解举止修养和品位;许多新富人喜欢一掷千金消费,用房子,车,甚至飞机来表示他们的社会地位。 受过好教育财富比较安全...
评分“身份”是一个标签。一旦降生某个家庭、某个地区,你是乡下人,还是城里人?你是穷人,还是富人?你是底层、中层,还是上层?身份如影随形。终其一生,或能改变,而这改变的过程,通常是一曲悲歌。 对于J.D.万斯和他的家族,聊可欣慰,改变已经开始。这个1984年出生的乡下男孩...
评分罗曼·罗兰曾经说过,从来没有人为了读书而读书,人们只是在书中读自己、发现自己和检查自己。这话就回忆录的写作来说也是适合的,特别是在作者在书中检视自己成长经历和童年创伤的片段,不可避免地带来主观的臆测和偏见,但这种书写角度恰恰给予我们一个难得的观察路径,一方...
Hillbilly Elegy pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024