I’m not kidding. J.D. Vance has done a Sir Edmund Hillary in his newly released “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.” This lad with ancestral roots in “Bloody Breathitt” ...

Despite labelling Britain "some ", JD Vance is actually of Scottish and Irish heritage. The US vice-president described ...

and 2016’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by Vice President JD Vance about his upbringing in Ohio as part of a white working-class community,” the site reported.

Without that social commentary, though, Hillbilly Elegy becomes just another bland ... tenderness or the tension that might hang over a family this close-knit but complicated.