Forget Hillbilly Elegy . Read this author’s stuff for honest truth about poverty in the Midwest.
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I read Hillbilly Elegy shortly after it came out due to the prompting of a conservative acquaintance. It is such an infuriating book because he comes SO close to getting it. Instead of acknowledging that he only got where he is through the help of others including government welfare, he decides he is a Special Boy and would have been great regardless.
If he toned it down, maybe he could be Tom Cruise; hopping on couches instead of humping them?
instead of posting this every time he’s mentioned, you should post something about his financial interest in seeing bankrupted American farms Being sold to foreign investors.
