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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Vance is a con artist. Grandparents with a $100K HHI and a mom who graduated top of her high school class, became a nurse, step dad who made at least $75K as truck driver isn't "working poor." And the town he grew up in in Ohio is STILL a pretty pleasant place. I think he's a smart nerd from Ohio that stole all the content for this book from white trash he saw in Kentucky.

Joined the military to pay for college? No. I think he's a clever nerd that wanted bonafides so he could get into an elite law school, write a book, run for office. The fact that Tiger Mom herself was his mentor at Yale tells you everything.[/quote]

I don't think you read the book. His mom was addicted his entire childhood and did not mother him. His entire family was deeply dysfunctional and traumatized. You can decide he was lying, I suppose, but if you accept that it is a faithful attempt and autobiography you have to accept that his family was very broken.

I am reading Dream Land now, about the rise of opiate addiction in the US and the role of a small town drug-producing town in Mexico and the pain clinic industry - its a good journalistic companion piece to Hillbilly Elegy, I think.[/quote]

I read the book and yes, I think he obviously embellished/exaggerated a lot of it.[/quote]

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