Candidates Spin Tales of Working Class Roots

New York Times: “You would be forgiven if you mistook the initial introductions of the 2016 presidential candidates with latter-day, and somewhat clichéd, versions of a Horatio Alger story. The current crop of White House hopefuls appears eager to outdo one another in recounting their up-from-poverty biographies, even if it means reaching back more than one generation.”