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How Yale launched Vance’s career
Even his memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” was partly the outgrowth of a paper he wrote in a Yale class. And he leveraged the story, which chronicles his childhood and the alienation of the working class, into a bestseller, a movie deal, and a political career — …