pstrongTHEem em1em NEW YORK TIMES emBESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSOstrongbrppstrongYou will not read a more important book about America this year.strongstrong--emThe Economist emstrongppstrongA riveting book.--emThe Wall Street JournalemstrongppstrongEssential reading.--David Brooks, strongstrong strongemstrongNew York TimesstrongemppFrom a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working classppemHillbilly Elegyem is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the tr