![]() The first is a memoir and the second a volume of history, but both examine the plight of poor and working-class whites in America. Vance and White Trash: the Secret 400-Year History of Poverty in America by Nancy Isenberg. ![]() Last year’s notable “twin books” were Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. You may have also heard of the concept of “twin movies,” where two remarkably similar movies are released around the same time– Armageddon and Deep Impact, Dante’s Peak and Volcano, The Prestige and The Illusionist. Perhaps the most famous example of this is the polio vaccine, developed in Pittsburgh by Jonas Salk and in Ohio by Albert Sabin in the mid-50s. You may have heard of the theory of multiple discovery, when two independent scientists make the same discovery at nearly the same time. ![]()
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