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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

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J.D. Vance purports to care about the effects of poverty, but his solution amounts to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps", where "bootstraps" equal his inherent and unexamined white privilege. While his accounts of life in poor rural Appalachia communities are endearing and empathetic, he ultimately loses all credibility by supporting the same neoliberal policies and ideologies that have continually gutted and failed these same communities. It's also impossible to read this outside the context of his swerve to the right on his Twitter feed where he panders to the conservative-sphere through anti-immigration rhetoric and echoing Trump-ian talking points. Don't waste your time with this author.