Hillbilly Elegy

by

J. D. Vance

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Hillbilly Elegy Symbols

Armco

The idea of upward mobility in Hillbilly Elegy is often wrapped up in discussions of Armco, a steel manufacturing company in Middletown, Ohio. After World War I, many working-class whites in the United States’ Appalachian…

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