The Tom Woods Show, episode 706.

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Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. I'm a little bit under the weather, so if you notice my voice

is a little different, which maybe you will, maybe you won't. That's the reason. Yesterday, I promised

that there was at least the possibility, let's say, that today's would be a really, really interesting

and compelling episode, and this is indeed the episode I was hoping to have for you, because today

I'm talking to author J.D. Vance, whose book Hillbilly Elegie, a memoir of a family and culture in crisis, is a surprise hit.

And as I speak to you right now, it is at number seven overall on Amazon.

Extremely difficult to do that because you're competing against fiction, cookbooks, self-help, all these other categories.

He's at number seven overall, and I told him number seven, of course, is clearly you're in New York

Times bestseller territory, and they're going to find out tomorrow, tomorrow being Wednesday,

August 3rd, 2016. And in fact, that is when authors find out. They find out the Wednesday, two weekends before the list with that person's book comes out. So if he is on the list, it won't be this weekend's list. It'll be the weekend after. So I don't know why they do it that way. But I hope he makes it because it is an extremely interesting and beautifully written book. I don't know what else to say about it.

J.D. Vance, as you learn in the book, is a graduate of the Ohio State University as well as Yale Law School.

He's worked in the law. He's also a principal investor at Mithril Capital, a global

technology investment firm based in San Francisco. And his book, Hillbilly Elegie, is taking a look at

the white working class. And in particular, his roots are in Appalachia. And the story talks about how he moves as a youngish boy from Kentucky to Ohio with the hope of escaping the poverty of Appalachia.

And the story of his family's lives and the neighbors they knew and the patterns of behavior he observed there

and the just all the ins and outs, the abuse, the triumphs such as they were.

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