Opinion – Dee Davis: Breathitt County, J.D. Vance, and me
By Dee Davis The Daily Yonder Sigmund Freud says we embrace mythical origin stories of leaders, warriors, and saints to…
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Ron Daley: J.D. Vance’s book ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ fosters negative stereotypes of Eastern Kentuckians
J. D. Vance’s 2016 book “Hillbilly Elegy” about his family’s life in Breathitt County does not reflect the people I…
Melissa Martin: An alternative history of Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte, a rebuttal to ‘Hillbilly Elegy’
The Appalachian region, defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission, includes 420 counties in 13 states in the United States. All…
Jamie Vaught: Hillbilly Elegy, sports memoirs among recommended non-fiction books for winter reading
This is the first of a two-part series on recently-published nonfiction books. Spring is still more than a month away…