Hillbilly Elegy was released during a period of intense interest in the culture and challenges of the white working class. It provides an autobiographical treatment to the subject, as academic released popular culture books based on their research. These include Strangers in Their Own Land by Berkeley sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild (2016), White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by historian Nancy Isenberg (2016), and Labor's Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America, sociologist Andrew J. Cherlin, 2014. Vance also cites the work of sociologists William Julius Wilson, Charles Murray, Robert Putnam, and Raj Chetty who have researched...
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