J. D. Vance: 2017 National Book Festival

discusses Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis with David M. Rubenstein at the 2017 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D. C. Speaker Biography: The author of the New York Times No. 1 bestselling Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, was raised in the southwestern Ohio city of Middletown and the Appalachian town of Jackson, book has struck a chord in the national writes sympathetically about the poverty and low wages in the places where he grew up while simultaneously raising questions about personal responsibility. For transcript and more information, visit