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SCOUT· 27%48m·2023-03-23·Arts Culture
SCOUT· 27%48m·2023-03-23·Arts CultureHillbilly Elegy
If Books Could Kill
In 2016, J.D. Vance informally launched his political career with "Hillbilly Elegy," a memoir that blames the relative poverty of Appalachian and Rust Belt populations on their own culture. Despite its reactionary premise, mainstream and liberal press outlets were so enamored by the book that they accidentally made…
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