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Appalachian Region Economic conditions Economic development Large print books Social mobility United States Case studies Technological innovations Economic aspects United States Vance, J. D Vance, J. D Family Working class whites United States Biography Working class whites United States Social conditionsVance, J. D.
Summary: Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 VANCE, J.D. VANVance, J. D.
Summary: Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B ELEVance, J. D.
Summary: Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 VANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VANCE, J.D. VANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VanCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B VANCE VANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem VanceSummary: Appalachian Reckoning is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Hillbilly Elegy to allow Appalachians from varied backgrounds to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography. The essays and creative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: West Virginia University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 HARScott, Kevin
Summary: The continued development of AI has the potential to create abundance and opportunity for everyone and help solve some of our most vexing problems. But how do we work to ensure that the continued development of AI allows us to keep the American Dream alive? Kevin Scott offers a clear roadmap to find the answer.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020