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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir

J. D. Vance

J. D. Vance's grandparents moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild would graduate from Yale ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2016

The Last Cowboys: An Pioneer Family i...

John Branch

"A can't-put-it-down modern Western." ―Kirk Siegler, NPR Longlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports WritingThe Last Cowboys is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Branch's epic tale of one American family strug...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2019

Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural B...

Patrick J. Carr

In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America's countryside. They met and followed ...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2010

Storm Lake: Change, Resilience, and H...

Art Cullen

"A reminder that even the smallest newspapers can hold the most powerful among us accountable."—The New York Times Book ReviewIowa plays an outsize role in national politics. Iowa introduced Barack Obama and voted bigly fo...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2020

Methland: The Death and Life of an Am...

Nick Reding

The bestselling book that launched meth back into the nation's consciousness. Based on Reding's four years of reporting in the agricultural town of Oelwein, Iowa, and tracing the connections to the global forces that set the stage for...

Paperback
Published: May 2010

Going Over Home: A Search for Rural J...

Charles Thompson Jr

An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equality, and tradition in AppalachiaCharles D. Thompson, Jr. was born in southwestern Virginia into an extended family of small farmers....

Paperback
Published: Oct 2019

Hillbilly Elegy [movie tie-in]: A Mem...

J. D. Vance

THE#1 NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economi...

Paperback
Published: May 2017

The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in ...

Robert Wuthnow

How a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural AmericansWhat is fueling rural America's outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And is there a more nuanced expl...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2019
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