¡®Brilliant ¡¦ offers an acute insight into the reasons voters have put their trust in Trump¡¯ Observer
¡®Powerful and highly readable account of the light of the poor white Americans in Kentucky¡¯, Books of the Year, Financial Times
¡®Essential reading for all yankophiles, politicians and anyone interested in how Donald Trump won over the rust belt to arrive at the White House¡¯, Books of the Year, Sunday Times
¡®The memoir gripping America ¡¦ Vividly articulates the despair and disillusionment of blue-collar America¡¯ Sunday Times
¡®A tough-edged elegy for ¡®white trash¡¯ hillbilly America¡¯ David Aaronovitch, The Times
¡®America¡¯s political system and the white working class have lost faith in each other. ¡®Hillbilly Elegy¡¯ offers a starkly honest look at what that shattering of faith feels like for a family who lived through it. You will not read a more important book about America this year¡¯ Economist
¡®Vance¡¯s description of the culture he grew up in is essential reading for this moment in history¡¯ David Brooks, New York Times
¡®Clear-eyed and nuanced, a powerful antidote to the clamour of news¡¯ The Times
¡®With exquisite timing Vance¡¯s ¡®Hillbilly Elegy¡¯ offers something profound at this time of political populism ¡¦ a great insight into Trump and Brexit¡¯ Ian Birrell, Independent
¡®I bought this to try to better understand Trump¡¯s appeal to those white working-class people who feel left behind, but the memoir is so much more than that ¡¦ It¡¯s an important social history/commentary but also a gripping, unputdownable page-turner¡¯ India Knight, Evening Standard
¡®A painfully honest account of America¡¯s white underclass by a brilliant young man¡¯ George Osborne, New Statesman
¡®A beautiful memoir but it is equally a work of cultural criticism about white working-class America ¡¦ [Vance] offers a compelling explanation for why it¡¯s so hard for someone who grew up the way he did to make it ¡¦ a riveting book¡¯ Wall Street Journal