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发表于2024-10-03
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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.
Most memorable read in 2016, eye-opening and thought-provoking
評分“所以白人的‘慘’和其他族裔的‘慘’有什麼分彆?——“有。白人的‘慘’是自找的,是‘They deserved it’;其他族裔的‘慘’來自白人的壓迫。”所以川普上颱有個屁用,不過證明瞭這種‘慘’的其來有自與自作自受(左派臉)
評分口語化的錶達很容易讀 但無論是童年生活,海軍服役階段和Yale Law School都流於錶麵化的描述 盡管反映齣瞭一代白人工薪階層的睏境 但“慶幸自己生在世界上最偉大的國傢”這種lines還是錶明作者離真正的sociology有一段距離
評分看多瞭這種又爛又窮又作的人已經無感瞭。生在美國已經是easy mode瞭,抓住點機會努努力就能比全世界大部分人過得好,你混成這個樣子又能怪誰呢。。。。They call them hillbilly, red neck, and white trash. I call them neighborhood, friends, and family.
評分4.5星,主要是這種背景的人能發聲的機會少,所以很值得看看
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評分我有那么多的理想,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...
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Hillbilly Elegy pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024