Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sunrise over the Appalachian Mountains. (Getty Images.) As a tenth generation Appalachian, Ivy Brashear sees J.D. Vance's 2016 ...

For the first time in living memory, families leaving Eastern Kentucky’s coalfield counties are more likely to resettle in Somerset or London than Cincinnati or Detroit. The Hillbilly Highway that ...

VP candidate J.D. Vance’s best-selling memoir told a compelling story about my home region in Appalachia. But it was not the whole story. On Monday, Donald Trump announced his pick for vice ...

Annihilating The Hillbilly Redux: Appalachia’s Struggle Against America’s Institutions is a profoundly important book for the field of Appalachian studies that shares the author’s personal experiences ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The memoir, billed as "the true story of what a social, regional and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung ...

In 2016, as Americans questioned why so many had voted for Donald Trump to become America’s 45th president – and again, how he was re-elected this week, JD Vance’s book appeared to have all the ...

A photograph of Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, the 2016 memoir from Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, once again began flying ...

When JD Vance was asked in August 2016 if he knew many people who planned to vote for Donald Trump, he was unequivocal. “A lot of people in my family, my neighbours and friends from back home. It’s a ...