American historian and the author of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg, calls Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance a peddler of the “self-made man myth.” Isenberg criticizes Hilbilly Elegy, the memoir that propelled him to fame, as a deceptive way of selling this myth and the conservative politics it comes with. “Much of what his memoir says tells us nothing about real class conditions,” Isenberg says, pointing to her own historical and sociological research on the rural poor in the United States.
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