j.d. vance's hill billy elegy is next. the late neurosurgeon paul kalanthi in his memoir, when breath becomes air. our look at the best selling nonfiction books at politics & prose bookstore continues with ta'nehisi coates. his look at the current state of black america is called between the world and me. jasmine ward is next with the fire this time, a collection of essays and poems about race written by more than 15 contributors. nancy isenberg examines class in america and the political significance of poor whites from reconstruction to the new deal in white trash. and carlo rovelli with his overview of modern physics in seven brief lessons on physics. that's a look at some of the current nonfiction bestseller ors according to politics and prose bookstore in washington d.c. many of these authors have appeared or will be appearing on booktv. you can watch them on our web site, booktv.org. >> you know, one of the tenets both for military thinking and also even in the business world is you have to know your competitor or kn

now a new book by j.d. vanceecision the very people trump is hoping to carry him to victory. "hillbilly elegy" is a personal story about vance's own family but the "new york times" aptly describes it as a tough love analysis of the poor who back trump calling it quote, a compassionate discerning sociological analysis of the white underclass that has helped drive the politics of rebellion, particularly the ascent of donald trump. mr. vance has inadvertently provided a civilized reference guide for an uncivilized election. i'm joined by j.d. vance. this is a remarkable work you have done here. great writer. you are a great writer. i kept thinking of thomas wolfe, one of my heroes and "you can't go home again." let's talk about your family. what is it you are trying to achieve in talking about people you call hillbillies, rednecks, whatever. what are you trying to get across to everybody else? >> what i wanted to try to get across and what i wanted to try to explain is these problems of equality and upward mobility

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j.d. vance's hill billy elegy is next. in it, the author traces his family's path into the middle class. the late neurosurgeon paul kalanthi in his memoir, "when breath becomes air." our look at the best selling nonfiction books at washington, d.c.'s politics & prose bookstore continues with national book award-winning author ta'nehisi coates. his look at the current black tate in america is called "between the world and me." jasmine ward is next with "the fire this time," a collection of essays and poems about race written by more than 15 contributors. nancy isenberg examines class in america and the political significance of poor quites from reconstruction to the new deal in "white trash." and carlo rovelli in "seven brief lessons on physics." that's a look at some of the current nonfiction bestsellers according to politics & prose bookstore in washingto

j.d. vance's book hillbilly elegy's timing could not have been better.an extraordinary job of unwittingly explaining something that has been puzzling most of us. what has been behind the fervor for donald trump across the country. it's a book that leaves you touched and enriched. let's start with that puzzle. if you look at ohio, donald trump and hillary clinton are almost neck and neck, despite all the crazy things he's done, despite everything. you were born in ohio, as it turns out. you know these people. why do they support him? >> they feel left behind in the modern american economy, and not just the economy, but the modern american way of life. they have seen many manufacturing jobs go overseas or shut down all together. they have seen coal mining jobs more difficult to come by. in the wake of that they have seen a more tough cultural crisis, fame opioid addiction rates, breakdown of family rates. so the concern is that this is the fault of people in washington, d.c. even though donald trump says a lot of outrageous things, they see him as the pers

j.d. vancethanks for joining me. >> thanks for having me. >> hillary clinton and donald trump are almost neck to neck, despite all of the crazy things he's done. you were born in ohio, it turns out. you know these people. why do they support him? >> they feel left behind in the modern american economy and not just the economy but the modern american way of life. they've seen manufacturing jobs go overseas or shut down altogether. they've seen coal mining jobs more difficult to come by. and in the wake of that, they've seen a really tough cultural crisis that's moved in. rising opioid addiction rates. they feel this extraordinary disconnect from the people who are in washington, d.c., and so even though donald trump says crazy things, they see him as the mainstream. >> you were born a white protestant. >> that's right. >> when i look at you and read your name, you seem like somebody who has been a kind of child of privilege in america. but you say that actually you come from the forgotten part of

and it's author, j.d. vance, joins our discussion now. it's great to have you here at the table. you grew up poor. in the rust belt. you say in your book, the is it a 'tis ux tell you that kids like m if they're lucky, they'll manage to avoid welfare. the they're unlucky, they'll die of a heroin overdose. you were in the marine corps and at yale law school. you said this is much bigger. >> it is. it's about why it's so hard for kids like me to have the life i've been able to have. a bunch of lucky things happened to me. i had a fantastic grandma and grandpa who stepped in. and i had incredible people step in. a lot of kids don't have that. >> one of the things you do in the book is argue that work class whites of scots-irish decent sufficienter from learned heldlessness. they think success is out of their control. you never talk about donald trump in the book. what are you saying about your peop the institutions that enable success are shut off to them. when i got into yale law school, a relative asked if i pretended to be liberal. i think that breeds a sense of learned heldlessn

j.d. vance's book i'm going to read, as well, that hugh talked about, sounds like a terrific book, but yourote a book and talked about how these sort of new deal grandchildren of the new deal kind of turned against the democratic party and a lot is in the states like pennsylvania and places like ohio. >> right. >> but do issues of border and that sort of militaristic vibe you see in that ad, does that speak to the loss of manufacturing, that kind of a message that trump did earlier in his campaign that's not in this ad? >> yeah, i think that's a really important missing piece, joy, i don't know why that's not there, but this is an ad that steve bannon, to go back to our earlier segment, could have written, and it plays on the fears that trump has tried to ignite in this white working class. so even though they are not plagued by people coming over the border, even though there are no syrian refugees in ohio or pennsylvania, this is designed to make white people feel very, very afraid of crime, of migration, of the future. >> can it work? >> again, it works with the same, you know, 30% of t

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and its author, j.d. vance, joins our discussion now. it's great to have you here at the table. you grew up poor. in the rust belt. you say in your book, the statistics tell you thatids like me face a grim future. if they're lucky, they'll manage to avoid w if they're unlucky, they'll die of a heroin overdose. you ended up in the marine corps and then yale law school. you say this is about something much bigger. >> it is. it's about why it's so hard for kids like me to have the life i've been able to have. a bunch of lucky things happened to me. i had a fantastic grandma and grandpa who stepped in. i had the marine corps. and i had incredible people step in throughout my life and made it possible. i think that's why a lot of people are frustrated. >> one of the things you do in the book is argue that working class whites of scots-irish decent suffer from learned helplessness. they think economic and social success is entirely out of their control. you don't talk about donald trump in this book. you never mention his name. what are you saying about your people? >> they're frustra

joining us now is j.d. vance. he's the author of this new book "hillbilly elogy." came from a poor down in eastern ohio in the rust belt where certainly donald trump has a lot of appeal. you talk about your upbringing in this book. a very fascinating book. you also take a bit of an anthroto logical approach to the experience in general of this region. i want to talk to you about what some of his supporters. you talk about these folks who he has appeal with. i want to talk about what they are seeing and hearing in these remark he's just said. let's listen to them. >> hillary wants to abolish -- essentially abolish the second amendment. by the way, and first base sif pick -- if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. although, the second amendment people, maybe there is. i don't know. but i'll tell you what, that will be a horrible day. >> j.d., how are his supporters receiving this message? and also, they're receiving it as we talk to them in a very different way than certainly, say, democrats, even republicans in washington are receiving it. >> yeah