 And this is NPR News. In 2016, a book that offered a bleak portrait of Appalachian culture and life for poor white Americans became a hit. And over the past eight years, as its author J.D. Vance ascended to the U.S. Senate and now the second place spot on the Republican ticket, many people from the region have a lot to say about the picture he painted. We look back at Hillbilly Elegy on All Things Considered from NPR News.