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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis ペーパーバック – 2017/6/1

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J. D. Vance grew up in the hills of Kentucky. His family and friends were the people most of the world calls rednecks, hillbillies or white trash.

In this deeply moving memoir, Vance tells the story of his family’s demons and of America ’ s problem with generational neglect. How his mother struggled against, but never fully escaped, the legacies of abuse, alcoholism, poverty and trauma. How his grandparents, ‘dirt poor and in love’, gave everything for their children to chase the American dream. How Vance beat the odds to graduate from Yale Law School. And how America came to abandon and then condescend to its white working classes, until they reached breaking point.

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‘The memoir gripping America … Vividly articulates the despair and disillusionment of blue-collar America’ Sunday Times

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‘America’s political system and the white working class have lost faith in each other. ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ offers a starkly honest look at what that shattering of faith feels like for a family who lived through it. You will not read a more important book about America this year’ Economist

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‘A painfully honest account of America’s white underclass by a brilliant young man’ George Osborne, New Statesman

‘A beautiful memoir but it is equally a work of cultural criticism about white working-class America … [Vance] offers a compelling explanation for why it’s so hard for someone who grew up the way he did to make it … a riveting book’ Wall Street Journal

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J.D. Vance grew up in the Rust Belt city of Middletown, Ohio, and the Appalachian town of Jackson, Kentucky. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school and served in Iraq. A graduate of the Ohio State University and Yale Law School, he has contributed to the National Review and is a principal at a leading Silicon Valley investment firm. Vance lives in San Francisco with his wife and two dogs.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0008220565
  • 出版社 ‏ : ‎ William Collins (2017/6/1)
  • 発売日 ‏ : ‎ 2017/6/1
  • 言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語
  • ペーパーバック ‏ : ‎ 272ページ
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780008220563
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5つ星のうち5.0 ヒルビリー、ホワイトトラッシュ、ラストベルト
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５年ほど前The Glass Castle /Jeannette Walls著で初めて白人の貧困家庭の物語を読み衝撃を受けたが、あくまで特異な両親のもとに育った個人の物語という記憶だった。普通の日本人にとってアメリカ人の人種文化的ヒエラルキーはピンとこないが（映画などでなんとなくは感じてはいても）著者が自らを紹介しているページから引用すると。P3　I may be white, but I do not identify with the WASPs of the Northeast. Instead , I identify with the millons of working class whte Aｍericans of Scotish-Irish descent who have no college degree. To these folks, poverty is the family tradition-their ancesters were day laborers in the Southern slave economy, share croppers after that, coal miners after that, and machinists and millworkers during more recent times. American call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them nighbors, friends, and family. 著書が社会的経験不足から（適切なアドバイスができる人物が周囲にいない）大学時代にアルバイト面接にネイビー（高校卒業後４年従軍）の軍ブーツを履いていってひんしゅくをかったり、法律事務所の採用パーティーでお里がしれる振る舞いをしたりと本人の努力だけでは越えられないバリアを感じた。難しい本ではないので絶対オススメです。　
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The first two thirds are an interesting, smoothly written look at some Kentucky hillbillies who spilled over into Ohio steel country, had a shot at improving their level of living despite their individual troubles, and how one of them dodged the swamp through the love and discipline of his cussing, gun-toting but pro-education grandparents. Amazing how well written it is, until one gets to the end, and sees the encouragement he got from Paul Theil owner of the hedge fund where he works, who just may have something to do with the up by your own bootstrap philosophy laid out at the end. But it is still a good story, through the booze, druggie and divorce childhood, a learned discipline in the Marines, and passage through Yale, both of the latter introducing him to "abnormal" normal type of people.
Steve Bannon claimed this book showed how the white underclass was suffering from jobs being shipped off to China. But Vance message is different. Talking about a friend who had "quit his job because he was sick of waking up early" who complained about the "Obama economy", he writes that "There is a cultural movement in the white working class to balme problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day." He claims these people, his people, should look at themselves first, not externally. The fact that he wrote this with the encouragement of his boss venture capital Thiel, just makes it a little more interesting. Hearing it mentioned by Bannon, I bought it because it was almost free on Kindle.
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Was curious and wanted to know why Tramp was elected.
One man's life was very well and precisely written in this book, which describes one aspect of American society.
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なぜトランプ政権が生まれたか、その背景にあるラストベルト地帯の白人労働者階級のリアリティを浮き彫りにする一冊。貧困、虐待、ドラッグ、低い進学率、離婚再婚を繰り返す複雑な家族関係の蔓延という、知識階級には実体験がなくても一部に確実に存在する社会で育った子供たちがどう希望をすり減らしていくかが生々しい。著者の人生を変える大きなきっかけが、海兵隊を経てのオハイオ州立大入学。それがなければその後のイェール大学ロースクールも選択肢になかっただろう。今や上位1%の仲間入りを果たした著者に付きまとう過去の悪夢やドラッグを繰り返す母親の影がアメリカを分断している病巣の深さを示している。オバマ政権時、ラストベルトの白人労働者は彼との共通点を何も見出せなかった。それはアイビーリーグという学歴であり(ヒルビリーで望めるのはせいぜい地元のコミュニティカレッジ)、スマートなスーツであり(自分たちはオーバーオール着てブルーカラー)、訛りのない英語であり(南西部アクセントでなく)、シカゴという都会育ちであることで、それはオバマさんのせいでもなんでもないが、別の惑星の人と思うからこそ信じられないようなデマのフェイクニュースを信じたという。トランプ大統領の聖人君子でない発言や振る舞いこそは地元の酒場でいそうな親近感を覚えさせるのかもしれない。
なお、イェール大学で著者の将来を左右するミリオンダラーアドバイスをくれることになるAmy Chuaは「Battle hymn of Tiger mother」の著者。彼女も中華系の移民の子で、一族の期待を背負ってものすごい努力と実力でイェールの教授にまでなった豪傑。オバマ前大統領同様、リベラルのダイバーシティの申し子でもあり、それは白人労働者階級がしわ寄せを食っていると反感を感じる対象なのかもしれない。
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社会の劣化負の再生産など、昨今日本でも問題になっていることが特徴的な社会に依存している。子供にとって安心して過ごせる場所、成功モデルとなる保護者、教育などの必要性。さりとてこのような環境から著者のように這い上がれるのは極めて少ない。幼少期に体験した暴力はトラウマのように自分にも引き継がれてしまう。
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50年前に約一年留学し、また約25年前に駐在員として数年米国に滞在したが、それぞれの時代と大きく異なっているところと、何となくそういう「うつむいている白人集団もいたよな」って思い出しながら読みました。でも逞しい主人公です。
それに比べ、今の日本の若きエリート達、何となく一方向を向いていないでしょうか、と心配にはなります。
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① アパラチア山脈の貧困地帯から脱出してオハイオ州の製鉄所に職を得た祖父母、離婚と薬物中毒を繰り返す母親、海兵隊からエール大学のロースクールを卒業した著者。ひたむきな若者の自伝であり家族の記録でもある。
② 幼少期からの著者の体験が克明かつリアルに綴られており、一気に読み終えてしまった。Poor　Whiteは米国文学のテーマとして再三登場するが、インテリ作家の上から目線で書かれており、本書とは立ち位置が異なるのだ。
③ 著者の育った町にあり、著者の祖父が勤めていたArmco　Steelについて、小生の知る所を述べれば、圧延技術に優れた名門企業。川崎製鉄（現JFE　ＳＴＥＥＬ）の資本参加によりＡＫ　Ｓｔｅｅｌとなった後は、最新の設備や製鋼技術が導入され、米国の証券アナリストの間では鉄鋼株としては一押しと言われる。フォードや米国トヨタに高級自動車鋼板を納めており衰退してはいない。工程の自動化・連続化により従業員が大幅に減ったと言うことなのだ。
④ 米国大統領選挙の天王山、Rust　Beltのど真ん中のオハイオ州が主な舞台となっているが、トランプ大統領当選の理由を本書から短絡的に引き出す見方には賛成しかねる。ルーズベルト大統領のニューディール政策以降、この地域の民主党の強固な支持基盤であった労組票の行方など考察すべき点は他にもあると思う。
⑤ 製鉄所のある町に育ちながら、工科大学に行って、鉄鋼技術者を目指す人が出てこない。著者もロースクール以外は眼中にない模様だ。稼ぎが違うと言えばそれまでだが、米国の製造業の復活は容易ではないだろう。
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Growing up of Kentucky, but often not living in it (because his parents moved to Indiana before they split), Vance provides a compelling spotlight on hillbilly life, which reads across to disaffected/disenfranchised poor people everywhere. His parents split up, his father disappeared for years, his mother had a succession of boyfriends and a drug habit, there was little work to be had as the auto plant closed down, many of his peers ended up in and out of prison. What saved Vance was (a) he was smart, but, even more, (b) his maternal grandparents provided a base of stability and a work ethic that helped him to believe in himself and to pursue education and, eventually, a successful career: although, even then, years later, he suffers from imposter syndrome, a deep-seated belief that he doesn’t really deserve the good job, the loving wife and kids.

The social background is fascinating – people on the fringes of mainstream society, almost literally, hidden away in the hollers of the Appalachians – with their own codes of honour, interacting enough with The Man to get money, but feeling excluded and not expecting to achieve beyond some personal status at a local level, and kind of institutionalised low self-esteem. Bad things that happen are always someone else’s fault: and Vance gives examples of this delusional self-righteousness, such as the guy who worked with him in the tyre depot who is outraged at getting sacked, even though he hadn’t bothered to turn up for work half the time. There are parallels with the UK in terms of the working-class areas which have lost their purpose as the industries which gave them meaning – coal, steel, shipbuilding, textiles – have disappeared and not been replaced, and the close community ties which bind people make it hard to leave, or to even to believe there’s a way out – for example, via education. In the US, the problem is exacerbated by distance and sheer physical isolation. Other countries will have their own variants of communities built around things which are no longer there and which suffer from that aimlessness.

To say, as some do, that this explains Trump or Brexit is perhaps over-egging the pudding: but it offers a picture of people abandoned by the march of progress, who then withdraw into themselves in a disconnect from the mainstream. And not only is it hard for individuals to motivate themselves break out of that mould, but it also offers a fruitful field for populists to draw on, to blame Other People (foreigners, the metropolitan elite) for that disadvantage and to ride that “righteous” anger to some political end (like Brexit or Trump 2016).

Overall, a terrific read, with some great insights, from someone who has actually lived it and got out (but still can’t quite believe it).
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5つ星のうち5.0 Muy buen libro.
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Como dice la portada sirve para tratar de entender los recientes hechos alrededor del mundo, como la elección de Trump y puede extrapolarse para entender el Brexit, pero de manera más profunda puede aplicarse en lo que sucede en muchas zonas de México y Latinoamérica con nuestros problemas de identidad y culturales que nos llevan a gobiernos populistas y culpar a otros de los problemas que nosotros tenemos en nuestras propias comunidades. Así mismo el libro sirve para entender que los problemas que encontramos en muchas zonas pobres donde vivimos también los tienen en países y economías primer-mundistas.
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Este é um dos melhores livros que li nos últimos tempos. O autor conta sua trajetória de vida desde quando era uma criança em família pobre no interior dos Estados Unidos até quando se formou em Direito em Yale, uma das mais renomadas faculdades dos EUA.

Juntamente com sua história de vida, o autor faz uma análise da cultura das pessoas à sua volta e em como essa cultura reforça o comodismo, prejudica a meritocracia, e torna quase impossível que pessoas pobres tenham chances (e condições) de sair da pobreza.

Apesar de o livro aparentemente tratar de uma cultura diferente da nossa, achei que muitas das descrições e análises se aplicam bastante à realidade brasileira.
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5つ星のうち5.0 From Appalachia to Yale: Success at Heart Wrenching Costs - A Must Read
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance (Harper Collins, 2016, $12.59/15.99) has been on the NY Times Best Seller List for forty-nine weeks, and at the time of this writing, stands at number two. This touching, revealing, warm, sad, and inspiring memoir, written by a Yale Law School graduate whose childhood was spent in the hills of eastern Kentucky and the migrated community of Middletown, OH, opens many sores while explaining in the most human and personal terms possible the pain and misunderstanding that harms working class and poor white Americans in the Hheartlands. Throughout this tale Vance sometimes mentions findings of academic studies and other research, using them to support or introduce his own poignant experiences, but, most of all, this is the story of one man's ability to persevere in an environment where success such as he has experienced is rare, and , according to him psychically costly as well as economically expensive.

Living within a home with serial father figures coming and going and an alcoholic, drug addicted mother, he attributes the source of his core values to life in rural Jackson, Kentucky in the hills and hollers of Appalachia with his Mamaw and any number of uncles and cousins. He describes on academic paper in which the authors suggest that “hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them, or by pretending better truths exist, a characteristic of bluegrass music, too. Vance refuses to look the others way.

Vance tracks the two major migrations from Appalachia to the industrial mid-west, particularly Middletown, OH, which were mirrored in the South, mid-South and New England, the depression era migrations and the post-WWII migration of returning veterans. He examines how the regions prospered and then died off with the decline of America industrial might, leaving abandoned neighborhoods, unemployment, and drug dependency behind, attributing this to both bad government policies and globalism.

Vance consistently refers to himself and his family as being poor and then at other times being “working class.” Joan C. Williams, in White Working Class seems to make a clear distinction between the two while Vance vacillates. He talks about “his people,” Kentucky migrants to southern Ohio, as often living off the dole, not working, and being plagued by drugs and violence, yet also talks about an uncle who escapes to the middle class, and his mother who, despite being an addict, was a nurse who was able to work a good deal of the time. He glories, however, in his extended family, his many uncles who provide him with male role models in both positive and negative ways. At times he seems remarkably judgmental, while at others, forgiving.

As Vance matures through adolescence, he begins to see the disjointures between both liberal and conservative points of view. He sees many of the government programs as well meaning but ineffective while the conservative solutions were disciplinary and draconian. In his reading of sociology, while in high school, he began to realize that the situation of black people described in his readings about black America contained the same dilemmas as did the lives and existence of the white working poor from Appalachia. “Our Elegy is a sociological one, yes, but it is also about psychology and community and culture and faith.” (144) He's writing about religion, work, and family when he observes the deep “cognitive dissonance between the world we see and the values we preach.” (147)

As Vance prepares to attend Yale Law School he explains in touching, no-holds-barred language why a person like him, growing up in poverty, bedeviled by the rigors of having a drug addicted mother living with multiple husbands, and seemingly inured to violence and loss could reject the attractions of both the left and the right. These chapters, presented within the context of an actual life lived in poverty and difficulty, if not despair, bring so many working class and poor white men, especially, to accept so much patently untrue or misleading material in seeking to understand who they are, why they got that way, and how difficult it is to extricate oneself. In short, Vance asserts, it's easier for many to blame “the other” than it is to do the hard analysis of one's own choices, accept the verdict, and get to work to change things. What sets J.D. Vance apart is his ongoing optimism, despite all evidence to the contrary.

Interestingly, Hillbilly Elegy can also stand as a “How To” book for those seeking to find their own way to a different place in both the workplace and in society. For instance, the non-verbal behavioral cues of social class are significantly different than the behaviors that pass for progressing in working class employment and social environments. Vance shows himself always to be exceptionally alert to what's going on around him. As he gains in self confidence, his ability to ask questions of those he trusts increases. He's also a very fast learner. Nevertheless he owns to deep feelings of abandoning the culture from which he comes while yearning to become part of that with which he's not, yet, thoroughly familiar. However, the struggle is neither easy nor always successful.

Throughout Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, Vance scatters data and information from relevant sociological and psychological writing to illuminate the points he makes, to give them a solid theoretical context. Such use of accurate research information never seems intrusive or fault-finding. Rather, it seeks to help a reader generalize from the highly personal revelation of the pain and confusion of Vance's childhood. It helps the reader gain understanding and perspective without ever excusing either those who raised him or his own mis-understandings, missed paths, and possibly botched relationships. He bravely opens the scars on his psyche, examines them, faces their consequences, and comes out the other side a stronger and better person. His painstaking honesty with the reader and his courage are never in doubt. This is not a book for the reader to quarrel with. Rather, it requires being good listeners, seeking to find the truths as they apply to them. Some would prescribe better, more effective programs. Others view the problems of poverty and drug addiction as the fault of the victim. While, ultimately, Vance looks towards personal responsibility for life, he fully understands the necessity for a compassionate government and individual acceptance of responsibility working together to make progress possible for all. I bought the book and read it on my Kindle app.
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