Too Much Finger-Pointing, Not Enough Faith Among the White Working Class?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 28, 2016

J. D. Vance, a former Marine and Yale Law School graduate, now a biotech executive, National Review contributor and the author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Harper, 2016), talks about his family and childhood neighbors and their struggle to achieve and maintain middle class status.

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