Hillbilly Elegy

“He's got a new book he's promoting all about his faith, which I'm very much looking forward to discussing with him.”

“And slept in his jeans, you know, read Hillbilly Elegy. He writes about how when he was at Yale Law School”

“Somebody claimed it was in his book. It's not in his book. Just read the book. You'll see it's a lie. Uh and they just did it to smear him.”

“Why don't you read Hillbilly Elegy? Why don't you listen to 2 minutes of what J.D. Vance has said in his public interviews?”

“Vice President JD Vance rising to national prominence after writing Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir of growing up in a town hollowed out by free trade and globalization.”

“They were in love with you after Hillbilly Elegy until you know cuz they thought you were like a Trump whisperer.”

“his M Chief among them who became a national figure when he wrote Hill Bailey El his sister Lindsay with whom he has a very close loving relationship”

“he made the movie hillbilly elgy a couple of years ago based on JD Vance's bestselling book and good for him for making the movie even though at that point we knew that JD Vance you know seemed to be more Republican leaning”

“He made the movie hillbilly elogy a couple of years ago based on JD Vance's bestselling book”

“that angst that JD Vance talks about in Hillbilly Elegy none of my hillbilly cousins went to Yale and none of them went on to be uh adventure capitalist or whatever it it's not who people really are”

“so it appears that no good deed goes unpunished because even though JD Vance wrote this bestselling book hillbilly elegy that was made into a film by Ron Howard that cast Glenn Close in the iconic role of JD's Mama”

“he writes about it all in Hill bology”

“which is just so dishonest anybody who's read hillbilly El or listen to JD talk about where he comes from knows”

“Anyone who's read Hillbilly Elegy or listened to JD talk about where he comes from knows he's got nothing but love for the people he grew up with.”

“But Trump's a phony too, and I'll just play this one other sound bite, because he was asked questions like this when Hillbilly Elegy hit.”

“when hillbilly elegy hit give tons of interviews including to me major Garett of C of CBS News”

“having read your book back in 16 done a in-depth profile of you in 17 to hear um Governor Basher of Kentucky where you were born and spent your early years attack you as like a fake hillbilly as as sort of appropriating their culture I've got to play a little bit of this because I'd love to get your”

“after hillbilly elegy until you know because they thought you were like a trump Whisperer you were the guy who could help them understand the evil man who had ended to the presidency but there was an interesting exchange that you had on Joy read show back in the day this is 16 discussing your book”

“They were in love with you after Hillbilly Elegy until, you know, because they thought you were like a Trump whisperer. You were the guy who could help them understand the evil man who had entered the presidency.”

“he is the author of hillbilly elegy a hugely popular best-selling Memoir about his life growing up in Ohio and before that in Kentucky”

“and I was thinking about you because hellbelly ele tells us the code to follow when one feels that one has been wronged and that code is to fight to fight”

“sure you hillbilly elery takes a hard look at sort of the malaise happening in these communities in the Rust Belt”

“I love there's a line in the book that says Hillbillies could go from zero to murderous and a heartbeat”

“talked about Hellbilly elegy”

“It's just amazing the stories in his past and the characters; you know, that's why Ron Howard made a movie out of the book. And the star of his life and history is his grandmother, Mama, who I talked with the audience about earlier this week.”

“reading his book about why she had 19 guns”

“if you read the book so we told a little bit about that area of Kentucky”

“now I first met JD back in 2017 about a year after his book hillbilly elegy became a New York Times bestseller”

“Now, I first met JD back in 2017, about a year after his book Hillbilly Elegy became a New York Times bestseller. The book dropped in the middle of the 2016 election cycle.”

“JD watched as the jobs dried up and the basketball courts grew covered with weeds my home he writes in hillbilly Eloy”

“JD watched as the jobs dried up and the basketball courts grew covered with weeds. "My home," he writes in Hillbilly Elegy, "was a hub of misery."”

“this is in the book and he told it to me as well the police were called by a concerned neighbor”

“Ron Howard made her character the star of his movie based on JD's book she was played by Glenn Close”

“She was so iconic that Ron Howard made her character the star of his movie based on JD's book; she was played by Glenn Close.”

“go back read his book hillbilly elegy is it elegy yeah I always screw that word up”

“it's kind of like it reminds me of JD Vance's hillbilly elgy you know it's kind of like that uh in its tone”

“hillbilly elegy is a must read it will it will break your heart it will make you cry it will make you stand and cheer for him”

“he his story is so compelling hillbilly elegy is a must read”

“if you read hillbilly elegy you know how he grew up”

“if you read his book hillbilly elegy which you must”

“her book is not totally dissimilar from hillbilly elegy by jd vance you know it just takes a hard honest and sometimes unfavorable view of appalachia”

“he's an author uh he wrote with the book hillbilly elegy uh I've read about half of it and uh”

“and there's a book you should read as well I'm going to recommend to you called hillbilly elegy um I'm reading it right now and it's uh it's it's amazing man it's just it's about your culture and the things that happen in your area in Kentucky”

“and there's a book you should read as well I'm going to recommend to you called hillbilly elegy um I'm reading it right now and it's uh it's it's amazing man it's just it's about your culture and the things that happen in your area in Kentucky and um you'll love it man it sounds like you could I mean”

“I mean, that book actually kind of had a renaissance back in 2016 when "Hillbilly Elegy" came out. [...] But JD Vance's book, "Hillbilly Elegy," I think was really important for a long time for American elites who were like, "How do these people support Trump?"”

“That book experienced a renaissance in 2016 when 'Hillbilly Elegy' was published, which many may remember. He ignored the signs that he needed to stop and drop out until it became undeniable for a vast majority of Americans.”

“one of my friends JD Vance he wrote this book hillbilly ology and one of the things he talks about is he's like you know we have our best scientists neuroscientists all these other people in the world trying to figure out how does make you and I spend more micro and milliseconds and kids on their phones than trying”

“I think it's a kind of CounterPoint to JD Vance's Memoir which for many people was sort of right immediately after the election”

“I talked about JD Vance's hillbilly elegy”

“JD Vance I mean you know read his book watch the movie I mean it it it does connect”

“and uh the book H hillbilly elogy was what brought him to the Forefront uh one of the things it did and uh he's the author of it it's a great book”

“and then the obvious one is JD Vance's hillbilly elery”

“if viewers haven't watched Hill belly or read the book Hill belly he understands it at such an intuitive level because he lived it”

“I think people really should go back and read JD Vance's book on uh Hillbilly, right? It's actually laid out there.”

“and it is directly at odds with the lion version of JD Vance who wrote Hillbilly.”

“Something I've always found interesting about Vance is that if you read Hillbilly Elegy, and I've read it a couple of times, if you take seriously what he is struggling with in that book, one of the things he's struggling with is a sense of being otherred.”

“they were immigrants Appalachian immigrants he talks about this at length in his book”

“but as was also true for JD Vance's own ancestors who moved from Kentucky to Ohio because the Ohio economy was better they were immigrants Appalachian immigrants He talks about this at length in his book”

“I've been thinking about this question with Vance because I've been going back and rereading Helly elegy and one of the Striking things about that book is that Vance understands his own story as an immigration story”

“that angs that JD Vance talks about in hillbill yogy”

“I interviewed JD Vance in his hillbilly elegy period and he was a very different guy”

“and going back to what I was saying earlier about M Romney and and Donald Trump and implicitly who is being spoken about it often seems to me we're we're implicitly speaking about you know the kinds of people that say Vance was worried about in his book hillbilly elegy and the policy proposals are flowing in that direction”

“he had a bestselling book but not that many people read it you know you know who knows about that Elite podcasters yes exactly he had a had a movie was made of his of his book almost no one watched it”

“my recollection of the book is it's a lot about how this kind of grievance and sense of being under threat is a way of avoiding facing up to the real problem he's very hard on his community it's not understanding it's super harsh”

“he's got a compelling personal story like hillbill elogy was a good book it just was I enjoyed reading it”

“and how it actually came to realize that Trump was the the vehicle for taking on the villains that he talks about in hillbilly elogy”

“the question with him has always been like is he the JD Vance from uh his book that seemed more reasonabley which I read at the time I thought it was pretty good and I know you're not allowed to say that anymore”

“I always go back to Hillbilly Elegy and its profound impact on the American psyche.”

“I finally watched Netflix show on the way back from Milwaukee while we were doing all the flight issues we're were talking about earlier and I was like I have some time I'll watch it that's the family community he grew up in”

“I don't I think that the the importance of hillbilly elegy in the minds of American voters on the left and the right cannot be understated”

“JD Vance is such an interesting pick partially because so many Americans know him because of hillbilly elegy which I just think it had you know publishing is sort of a Dying industry in the day and of social media but that book had such a profound impact on the American public and this was before he was in the”

“There are some really important similarities that JD Vance has with President Trump, such as being a class trader. It's important to remember, Megan, that when that book came out, he was so celebrated by the left-wing elite.”

“it's important to remember Megan that when that book came out he was so celebrated by the left-wing Elite he was the keynote speaker at the Aspen ideas Festival”

“and he writes in the book about how he was afraid of it and so she punched him in the face”

“and on the non-fiction list Hill Billy elegy remains at the top JD Vance's Memoir”

“there are some you know sort of easy description s of your book that compare it with JD Vance's hillbilly elgy and say you know here is the sort of liberal version to his more conservative story”

“on the non-fiction list I think the most interesting thing um is that hillbilly Eloy by JD Vance the Memoir by this white workingclass guy”

“Some of the same stories that he talked about in Hillbilly Elegy about kind of the rise of industrialization in Ohio”

“This is the the lesson of uh some of what JD talked about in Hillbilly Elegy.”

“And so, you know, I think this is kind of what JD talks about in Hillbilly Elegy as well.”

“you know Tara westovers Memoir educated has continued to sell really well you know that's sort of like in the JD Vance hillbilly elegy tradition of of a surprising Memoir”

“and so is Hillbilly elegy a memoir by JD Vance and he grew up in a steelt town in Ohio that was thriving and has you know fell on hard times and so he looked you know talking to his own Community his own family members um really did an astute analysis of the white underclass”

“because my copy of hillbilly elery was the 2018 copy and so it's sort of festooned with praise”

“It's so amazing because my copy of Hillbilly Elegy was the 2018 copy, and it's sort of festooned with praise from all the same outlets that are now attacking him.”

“there was all these white working class books that became its own genre right the hillbilly elogy genre exactly exactly that's sort of the the foundational text of the of the white working class books of this time”

“hillbilly elegy was not a book about Donald Trump Donald Trump is not mentioned in that book it was written before Trump's campaign but it became a trump book”

“It's also worth noting that in his book, Hillbilly Elegy, he claimed he changed his name on his wedding day in 2014, but his legal name change took place in April of 2013, just before he graduated from Yale.”

“So that's a little awkward seeing as in how in his own book JD said quote to understand me you must understand that I am a ScotsIrish hillbilly at heart.”

“She was, as you know, Dave, 'cause you read the book, but she was not a traditional grandmother in a lot of ways.”

“I definitely found the reaction to the book as sort of this political insight into a lot of voters, a little bit weird 'cause the book doesn't mention Clinton, it doesn't mention Trump, it's not really a political book in the classic sense, but I understand why people were trying to understand, like why did these folks in the middle”

“We all read Hillbilly Elegy. I don't know if we talked about it on this pod years ago but you and I certainly talked about it a bunch Chamath. And you know he he came from nothing. Less than nothing.”

“We all read Hillbilly Elegy; I don't know if we talked about it on this pod years ago, but you and I certainly talked about it a bunch.”

“I have not yet met JD Vance, although we have a podcast planned; I have read his book, however, much of it twice.”

“I have read his book however much of it twice ... Vance writes with real love of the people in his life in hillbilly elogy which is genuinely a people rather than idea centered book”

“You know what movie best describes the situation I had it I and I just saw it a couple months ago was uh Hillbilly Elegy.”

“i mean this is what jd vance talks about in hillbilly elegy right the people who are in these small towns and they've basically been told that they have two choices they can go on welfare or they can leave”

“He probably had something to do with J.D. Vance getting the deal with Netflix to do his book, Hillbilly Elegy, I think it was called.”

“see that. But she does get it. I mean she she sort of um her book is not totally dissimilar from Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance. You know it just takes a hard, honest, and sometimes unfavorable view of Appalachia and what's happened there.”

“The Trump thing's happening and in many ways, your story and the book and then the movie, sort of is the story of the people that kind of supported Trump, right?”

“you know i read you know the the hillbilly elegy author”

“I read hillbilly LG when it came out that was JD's you know story The the book”

“Yeah, and I know we're going to get into all of that, because again, we have a Sager tweet, but it echoes something that you actually heard from JD Vance in Hillbilly Elegy that he's since kind of recanted this critique of American culture.”

“another book that kind of fits that category but of course has been on the list for a while is uh hillbilly elgy by JD Vance which is holding strong at number three”

“being a first-term senator being a first-term senator is not major national Spotlight and being the guy who wrote A a very popular book is nothing like the kind of scrutiny that comes on someone”

“what's important is one he his his political identity is from hillbilly elegy you know he's speaking to people from the Rust Belt he's from Ohio spent a lot of time in Appalachia”

“I mean Ron Howard directed a movie based on his book right”

“He wrote that book Hillbilly Elegy, which was a very interesting book. I mean a very interesting book. And you know, they made a movie out of it I think, but he's a political newcomer.”

“And what I mean by that is that if you look at their background right they came from you know family situations that were working class or in J's case a little bit less than that right Hill bology”

“having said that i've recently been recently reading hillbilly elegy which is fantastic”

“around the time when he wrote the hillbilly elegy book and and he was sort of you know in some ways became um the way to explain Trump to you know liberals”

“so he told me that he wanted hillbilly LGA to be mostly sociological like this kind of detached almost academic work where he's describing the patterns and pathologies of Appalachia the white working class and so on”

“But his book is really about his upbringing in Middletown, Ohio.”

“Mr. Vice President, I have your book here. Okay. And it says, "Of all the things that I hated about my childhood, nothing compared to the revolving door of father figures."”

“You read the book, he didn't quite say that. He was honest about their situation. He was from this group of people. Yes, Kentucky, but it's His book is really about his upbringing in Middletown, Ohio.”

“Well, going back to that point about the fabricated page from JD Vance's book, Hillbilly Elegy, that talks about him having sex with a Christian or whatever, that was that was kind of the the brilliant aspect of this”

“he wrote the book The hillbilly elegy I think it was called and and that was really well received and it really spoke to some real uh preent problems in in the United States”

“J.D. Vance is a phony. He he's fake. I mean, he claims to be from Eastern Kentucky, tries to write a book about it to profit off our people, and then he calls us lazy.”

“I mean, he claims to be from Eastern Kentucky, tries to write a book about it to profit off our people, and then he calls us lazy, acting like he understands our culture and he's one of us.”

“JD Vance, the vice presidential debate based on the people that Kamala Harris is vetting as a candidate, but that's who he is; he's not nearly as substantial as you'd think his life experience and his book and the movie made about his book should be.”

“This is... no one knows about JD Vance. I know he had a bestselling book, but not that many people read it.”

“I think that this book writing it was a very good step”

“JD Vance, I mean, you know, read his book, watch the movie, it connects. He had a tough life.”

“everybody's kind of familiar with him and his book hillbilly elogy”

“where's a book and they all read his book right and it became just like it became like like people were walking around... salon book clubs about hillbilly elegy”

“he's from middletown but he made a boatload dissing his former neighbors to sell his book”

“that's where that's what hillbilly elegy was written about”