Hillbilly Elegy, the best-selling memoir by J.D. Vance, is often taken as a good explanation of the white working class rage that led to Trump’s election. But Steven Hahn doesn’t agree—he says the book “has the feel of a college application essay”—a simplistic caricature of family dysfunction and the author’s efforts to escape and achieve.

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