mp3 cd, 1 pages
Published June 28, 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, Harpercollins.
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.
Touching and informative autobiography that gives an interesting insight into the lives of the white working class in the States.
