hillbilly

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Appeared in the March 25, 2026, print edition as 'Andy Beshear’s Hillbilly Education Elegy'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Vance was raised as an evangelical in a chaotic and sometimes deprived upbringing that he described in his memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."

From Barron's • Nov. 1, 2025

His mostly absent biological father exposed Vance to his conservative Pentecostal church in Ohio when Vance was a teenager, according to his memoir Hillbilly Elegy.

From Slate • Sep. 30, 2024

Then there is the Vance that is on the pages of "Hillbilly Elegy" and the prescriptions he has for the country – particularly those stuck in the left-behind places.

From Salon • Aug. 21, 2024

I wasn’t Space Boy back then, I was Hillbilly Henry because of a cowboy hat I’d worn every day for weeks.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson