JD Vance 
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SOURCE: Hedgehog Review
4/10/2020
Left Behind: The Trouble with Euphemism
by Nancy Isenberg
A historian of white rural poverty says that the cultural phenomenon of JD Vance's book "Hillbilly Elegy" is just the latest deployment of the "left behind" euphemism to obscure the nature of poverty in the United States. The rural poor are and have been part and parcel of the American economic order.
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SOURCE: NPR
1-31-18
Historian Makes Case For "What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia" In New Book
Historian Elizabeth Catte takes on J.D. Vance's memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."
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