Tag: Redneck

  • Review: Hillbilly Elegy

    Review: Hillbilly Elegy

    My first comment on this book is about the price. For a book whose purported audience is the working and welfare poor from Appalachia, the price set at 15.99 for ebook is a slap in the face. I don’t usually review a book on price, but in this rare case, it matters. JD Vance’s treatise,…

  • Blast from the Past: Redneck Manifesto

    Blast from the Past: Redneck Manifesto

    This was published three years ago, but I realized yesterday it had gotten lost when I switched blog hosts. Fortunately I have access to archives. He’s written a snarky take on the Glass Ceiling which reminded me that I had read him before.   I had to review a book for my Cultural Anthropology class.…

  • Redneck Manifesto Review

    Redneck Manifesto Review

    I had to review a book for my Cultural Anthropology class. I thought I would share the review here, along with a link to the book so you can explore it yourself. It’s a fascinating diatribe, and one that is tartly, refreshingly, honest. I self-identify as belonging to that unique tribe, the Alaskan redneck, so…