Hillbilly Elegy recounts J.D. Vance's powerful origin story... From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate for the 2024 election an incisive 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. THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \"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 Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this gr