“Hillbilly Elegy,” Vance was venerated by many journalists and book critics as a powerful voice representing long-overlooked Americans. But he’s no working-class hero.
WhileHillbilly Elegyis likely to see a sales bump now that Vance has been announced as Trump’s VP pick, its Goodreads ratings appear to be stuck in limbo for the time being. Screenshot via Goodreads Goodreads, which is owned by Amazon, has temporarily limited the ability for users to ...
Hillbilly Elegyby J.D. Vance. 2018, 388 pp. From a former Marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate for the 2024 election, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader,...
3. HILLBILLY ELEGY by JD Vance: The vice president-elect, in a memoir written shortly after graduating from Yale Law School, looks at the struggles of the white working class through the story of his own childhood. 4. FRAMED by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey: Our criminal justice system ...
Hillbilly Elegy author, former venture capitalist, and Ohio senator J. D. Vance is Trump’s running mate. We’re revisiting Frank Guan’s piece in the Feb/March 2018 issue of Bookforum about Elizabeth Catte’s What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia: “Though the referent of the accusa...
News Corp's HarperCollins reports Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to $546M, led by a 15% YoY gain in digital sales; JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy led titles with ~1.5M copies Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: CNN must face Project Veritas' defamation lawsuit after a federal appeals court finds that Proj...
Former first lady Melania Trump's memoir, "Melania," was No. 1 on the Amazon list, and Vice President-elect JD Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" was in the top 10. Donald Trump's photo book "Save America" was in the top 30. At Barnes & Noble, "Fiction and non-fiction...
News Corp's HarperCollins reports Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to $546M, led by a 15% YoY gain in digital sales; JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy led titles with ~1.5M copies Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: CNN must face Project Veritas' defamation lawsuit after a federal appeals court finds that Projec...
Those are the opening lines to "Hillbilly Elegy," the memoir by Republican Vice Presidential nominee andSen. JD Vance. It documents his rocky childhood growing up in Jackson, Kentucky, and Middletown, Ohio. Like Vance, I, too, learned my address for the same reasons. In fact, the geography...
"The Truths We Hold: An American Journey" currently ranks at No. 1 among female biographies on Amazon. It's No. 2among all biographies, behind Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance's 2016 personal memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy."