Hillbilly Elegy

commit to one D.C. law firm, he
suggested another firm where two of his
friends from the Bush administration had
recently taken senior partnerships. One
of those friends interviewed me and,
when I joined his firm, became an
important mentor. I later ran into this
man at a Yale conference, where he
introduced me to his old buddy from the
Bush White House (and my political
hero), Indiana governor Mitch Daniels.
Without David’s advice, I never would
have found myself at that firm, nor
would I have spoken (albeit briefly) to
the public figure I most admired.
I did decide that I wanted to clerk.
But instead of walking into the process