Hillbilly Elegy

This book was a great explanatory read describing why people change how they think. It was a little too much on the "feel sorry for these people, which makes it OK for them to look at their world as a zero-sum game" for my tastes.

Having grown up outside of DC, reading this book was very eye-opening for me. I enjoyed learning about the demographic of white-working class in rural Appalachia, but, Vance's personal narrative was the most powerful and engaging aspect of the book for me.

A few things about this book bugged me, but it seemed overall fine.

But then I figured out he was really conservative, and I went back and re-read the parts I didn't like. The whole situation became clear. So much of it is about blaming poor people for being poor. Not a fan.