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...from the attached review of "Hillbilly Elegy"...
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In telling his story of overcoming his mother’s addiction and attendant familial and economic precarity, Vance credits his Mamaw and Papaw, along with luck and hard work.

Fair enough. But he gives no nod to the government structures – K-12 schools, the military and the GI bill, the public university where he earned his B.A – that greased the skids of his sharp ascension into the ruling class. Worse still, Vance expressly blames laziness as the culprit of those left behind, with only cursory attention to the impact of policies that encouraged the offshoring of manufacturing jobs and weakening of the social safety net.
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btw, it's worth clicking on a few of the author's embedded links that underscore her points.


Link: https://www.ucdavis.edu/curiosity/blog/what-did-hillbilly-elegy-get-wrong