2.5 Stars ** It was an OK read but wasn't what I expected . I wonder who chose the title on this Memoir, was it the Author or the Publisher ? I have dithered and doddered over this book's rating for several days as I felt my low rating was out of sync with other readers but I just didn't s...
This is an interesting personal memoir, but not the fascinating insight into the Trump movement that NPR led me to expect. It’s a well-written, sometimes moving, always affectionate, look at the family and community of a man who was raised in a poor, working-class area, but who managed to graduate f...
JD Vance grew up as a hillbilly (his own term) with a spiritual home in a Kentucky holler and an actual home (actually, multiple homes due to a peripatetic drug-abusing serially marrying mother) in southwestern Ohio. From these humble origins, he went on to the Marine Corps, a successful undergradu...
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