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 political and pundit establishment, including me, by winning the Republican presidential nomination.
Opinion: When Hollywood came to my Ohio hometown (the book was better)
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