Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture ... -David Lammy

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis' by JD Vance made me entirely rethink U.S. republicanism, Donald Trump and the American white working class.

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David Lammy is a notable politician known for his service in government and advocacy on various social and political issues. He might have been a member of parliament or held ministerial positions.

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Parenting is more than a numbers game: it's a question of whether people are equipped for the toughest job they will ever be asked to do....
As a young man, I was angry about all things legal....
Reading international law at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London was a wonderful experience. With its incredibly diverse student popu...
Throughout her life my mother, Rose, prayed for good health. My father left when I was 12 and money was tight, so she couldn't afford to take time off...
We need specific work on race equality programmes and programmes targeted at helping those who are yet to fulfil their potential....
We will not achieve gender equality in the workplace until we fix our system of parental leave....
Ultimately, we must either abandon our reliance on stop and search or abandon any hope for a criminal justice system grounded in equality, impartialit...
I remember singing as a chorister in Peterborough Cathedral, having won a music scholarship to go to school there, and realising for the first time in...
My father was a taxidermist, not a run-of-the-mill profession for a West Indian immigrant. Having given up on becoming a vet, he settled for working w...
We should not let those with a political agenda use London's growing population to support their anti-immigration rhetoric, and we should challenge th...

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There are so many people out there struggling with racism, or their sexuality or where they're brought up or how wealthy their family was ans these is...
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American....
Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you....
One side of my family cooked this way, talked this way, celebrate this way, traditions is this way, and then one of the sides is different, and as a k...
Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family....
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity....
Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family....
When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent t...
Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I mis...
I'm from a family of six men, so I'm bound to be physical....