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[quote=Anonymous]I read the book.  I was struck by three things:

- The first half of the book was sensitively written; the second was a conservative screed.
- When he first got to Yale, his friends seemed to be others who felt at least somewhat like outsiders. Once Vance seemed to have broken the code and been accepted by elite power brokers, there were few, if any, mentions of the people who had befriended him when he felt out of place. 
- He seems to have limited empathy and imagination.  He either doesn’t get or doesn’t care that it’s easier to work the system when you’re white and male than when you’re not — despite working hard, being intelligent, and even attending an Ivy League law school. I’m sure he has qualities that might not be adequately captured in the book, but that really made me wonder about how that attitude will impact his biracial kids.

tldr: He got to make the leap from self-proclaimed “hillbilly” to something approximating a hillbilly’s vision of what a rich, powerful, white male looks like. . It’s a caricature he embraces.

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