From the moment I learned about hillbillies as a child, I was entranced. Good ol’ boys and girls born high up in the mountains? That’s my parents. People who moved from rural towns to metro areas in ...

I READ the book “Hillbilly Elegy” shortly after it came out in 2016. I’d not heard the name J.D. Vance then and I had no preconceptions about the author. I was struck by the similarities of the ...

As many were reeling from the 2016 presidential election, JD Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy,” published earlier that year, emerged as a way to understand Trump’s victory via a working class memoir from ...

Trump was wounded on July 13 during an assassination attempt while speaking at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Photo: AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in ...

Sixty years ago, Americans were doubled over laughing at a 70-something spitfire’s antics. When “The Beverly Hillbillies” made its debut on CBS in 1962, critics were aghast. However, viewers fell in ...

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I first became aware of J.D. Vance in 2016, soon after his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” came out. I knew the book had been published because I had no fewer than five friends or former colleagues send it ...