Clarence Page: When Hollywood came to my hometown
Among other momentous events, I'll remember 2020 as the year when, decades after leaving my Ohio hometown, Hollywood brought it back to me. Appropriately, reactions to Ron Howard's film, "Hillbilly Elegy," have been about as polarized as the politics that helped turn J.D. Vance's memoir into a breakout hit in the 2016 election cycle. As I have written before with unabashed Buckeye pride, Vance's memoir about overcoming an impoverished childhood in rural Kentucky and Rust Belt Ohio to graduate from Yale Law School could hardly have come out at a better time. Donald Trump had just surprised the...
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