J.D. Vance appears at the 17th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. on Saturday, September 2, 2017. The author of the New York Times No. 1 best-selling "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis", J.D. Vance was raised in the southwestern Ohio city of Middletown and the Appalachian town of Jackson, Kentucky. Vance writes sympathetically about the poverty and low wages in the places where he grew up while simultaneously raising questions about personal responsibility. (Photo by Jeff Malet)
J.D. Vance (left) appears in conversation with philanthropist David Rubenstein at the 17th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. on Saturday, September 2, 2017. The author of the New York Times No. 1 best-selling "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis", J.D. Vance was raised in the southwestern Ohio city of Middletown and the Appalachian town of Jackson, Kentucky. Vance writes sympathetically about the poverty and low wages in the places where he grew up while simultaneously raising questions about personal responsibility. (Photo by Jeff Malet)
