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Blaming others for its woes won't solve US problems

An American flag flies outside of the US Capitol dome in Washington, US, Jan 15, 2020. Marked by four main themes, Hillbilly Elegy provides a window into Vance's beliefs and values, and sheds light on the stories behind the 2024 US presidential election. Vance admires the integrity of his community — their kind acts including helping strangers dig cars out …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Blaming others for its woes won't solve US problems

China Daily

An American flag flies outside of the US Capitol dome in Washington, US, Jan 15, 2020. Marked by four main themes, Hillbilly Elegy provides a window into Vance's beliefs and values, and sheds light on the stories behind the 2024 US presidential election. Vance admires the integrity of his community — their kind acts including helping strangers dig cars out …

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2 months ago

Inside Team Trump: How all the president's men (and women) worked to propel The Donald to his extraordinary landslide victory... and the roles they will take in his new administration

Daily Mail

After a landslide victory in the 2024 election, Donald Trump's family and closest allies joined him on stage for his victory speech. MAGA fans have called on the UFC boss to become the new combative White House press secretary after he basically commandeered the microphone during Trump's victory speech and delivered a high-energy speech of his own. JARED KUSHNER Jared …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

JD Vance's luxury requests for book tour with first-class flights, private cars and $40,000 speaking fee

Daily Mail

During the tour for his best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, JD Vance sought first-class flights, private cars, and speaking fees from public universities across the Midwest, a report has claimed. Vance’s book tour for his best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy forced at least one university to back out of hiring him for a public appearance Vance's fee for a 45-minute talk, a …

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3 months ago

In the heart of Appalachia, a distant cousin of JD Vance leads an opposing ‘authentic hillbilly’ movement

LA Times

Five generations of Vances gathered in West Virginia last month for a reunion, singing hymns and swapping stories in a quiet park hugged by towering green mountains waiting to burst into autumnal shades of orange. The book may never wind up on a bestseller list or see the big screen, but Terra Vance said its lessons on empathy and perseverance …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Who is Usha Vance? The wife and family of Trump’s VP pick JD Vance

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Her knowledge went much deeper, however: She instinctively understood the questions I didn’t even …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Kamala Harris' And JD Vance’s Memoirs Explain Their Differences

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING One major-party candidate wrote a memoir that focuses on how growing up the child of a single mother shaped the person they’ve become and how they see the world. But Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris also wrote a memoir, 2019′s “The Truths We Hold.” It didn’t become a movie, but it did sell pretty well. “I knew …

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4 months ago

JD Vance: Hillbilly Elegy director Ron Howard hits out at Donald Trump’s ‘disappointing’ running mate

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Hillbilly Elegy director Ron Howard has taken a swipe at JD …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

"It's blanket opportunism": "Rural America" author on "switch between" the "two different JD Vances"

Salon

As demonstrated this week at Chicago's United Center, modern American politics is an exercise in branding. This is the second of a two-part interview: One of the dominant narratives—which does not hold up well to the empirical evidence in the aggregate— is that Trumpism and the MAGA movement are a “revolt” by the “left behind” working class in rural red …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Glenn Close: Hillbilly Elegy star takes swipe at JD Vance

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Hillbilly Elegy star Glenn Close has made a subtle dig at …

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5 months ago

At 2021 O.C. event, JD Vance said divorces after unhappy, ‘even violent’ marriages ‘didn’t work out for the kids’

LA Times

JD Vance, shown at the Republican National Convention, made the comments about marriage at a 2021 book talk for his memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” hosted by Pacifica Christian High School in Orange County. At a 2021 event hosted by a private Newport Beach high school, future Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said that after the sexual revolution of the 1960s, …

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5 months ago

Tim Walz lands a zinger on Vance about that couch story - and attacks him for using Hillbilly Elegy to trash his own community

The Independent

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5 months, 1 week ago

J.D. Vance: Netflix’s Hillbilly Elegy movie undercuts his whole message.

Slate

The American electorate has spent the days since he accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for the vice presidency getting to know J.D. Instead of riding high on postconvention euphoria, Vance exited the Republican National Convention with the lowest favorability ratings of any nonincumbent VP candidate since 1980, and the days since then have been worse, as Vance’s support of extreme …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Hundreds of thousands of ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ sold after author JD Vance’s selection as veep candidate

The Independent

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Publisher plans massive ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ reprints to meet demand for VP candidate JD Vance’s book

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump’s selection of JD Vance as his running mate has led to a surge in sales for “Hillbilly Elegy,” his best-selling memoir that came out in 2016. Vance’s book already had sold more than 3 million copies before Trump chose him for the Republican ticket. “Hillbilly Elegy,” which Ron Howard adapted into a feature …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

'Ignorant and lazy': Appalachians respond to 'Hillbilly Elegy' with their own book

Raw Story

As a tenth generation Appalachian, Ivy Brashear sees J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” as a “really one-sided and simple view of the region.” In an effort to help broaden people’s view of Appalachia, she decided to share her own narrative as part of a collection of writings in the 2019 book, “Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy.” …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: JD Vance, Much Like Trump, Is A Media Creation

Huff Post

Much as I can’t stand a hypocrite, I have never found the hoopla over JD Vance’s evolution on Donald Trump to be all that particularly compelling a topic. Then there are fancy folks like Larry Summers, former treasury secretary under Bill Clinton and president of Harvard, who tweeted: “Anyone wanting to understand Trump’s rise or American inequality should read it.” …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

From Never Trumper to MAGA town crier, J.D. Vance evolves, ascends as Trump’s vice presidential pick

LA Times

Vice Presidential candidate J.D. That evolution hit 180 degrees at Monday’s Republican National Convention when Trump, 78, selected Vance, 39, as his vice presidential running mate. Vance attained international renown for his 2016 bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” which details Vance’s childhood in Middletown, Ohio, a steel mill town in America’s heartland. …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

How JD Vance became the new king of America

The Telegraph

Media magnate Rupert Murdoch was said to have favoured Burgum. Political strategist James O’Brien, who runs the GreyRock strategies company, sees the logic in picking the author of Hillbilly Elegy: it’s the book that “helped shape the foundations of the 2016 Trump campaign, as it was a driver for Republican outreach to rural voters but also to black and Hispanic …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

JD Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" ignores the real Appalachian crisis it portrays

Salon

I started reading JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" on election day, 2020. It is one thing to call Vance a “Trump whisperer” and attempt to utilize his book as an answer for the vote, but it is something else entirely to take him on as a “fiercely astute social critic.” For all of his supposedly fierce astuteness, and all …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

J.D. Vance: More radical than MAGA?

Raw Story

Politico reporter Ian Ward interviewed Ohio Senator J.D. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it.” But on Wednesday night, Vance called Trump, quote, “America’s last best hope.” SEN. J.D. I think the way that the Republicans have been using the opioid epidemic and tied it to immigration is sort of a good symbol for …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

GOP vice presidential pick Vance revisits Appalachian roots as bitter divide over memoir lingers

Associated Press

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Newly minted vice presidential nominee JD Vance built his Wednesday night speech to the Republican National Convention around his own Appalachian roots, but it wasn’t the first time he had shared his personal story. “That’s what Scots-Irish Appalachians do when people mess with your kid.” Ray Jones, the judge-executive of Pike County, Kentucky, and a former Democratic …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Hillbilly Elegy reveals JD Vance as a man of contradictions

The Independent

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

What ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ can tell us about JD Vance and his right-wing beliefs

The Independent

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Blaming others for its woes won't solve US problems

Blaming others for its woes won't solve US problems

Inside Team Trump: How all the president's men (and women) worked to propel The Donald to his extraordinary landslide victory... and the roles they will take in his new administration

JD Vance's luxury requests for book tour with first-class flights, private cars and $40,000 speaking fee

In the heart of Appalachia, a distant cousin of JD Vance leads an opposing ‘authentic hillbilly’ movement

Who is Usha Vance? The wife and family of Trump’s VP pick JD Vance

Kamala Harris' And JD Vance’s Memoirs Explain Their Differences

JD Vance: Hillbilly Elegy director Ron Howard hits out at Donald Trump’s ‘disappointing’ running mate

"It's blanket opportunism": "Rural America" author on "switch between" the "two different JD Vances"

Glenn Close: Hillbilly Elegy star takes swipe at JD Vance

At 2021 O.C. event, JD Vance said divorces after unhappy, ‘even violent’ marriages ‘didn’t work out for the kids’

Tim Walz lands a zinger on Vance about that couch story - and attacks him for using Hillbilly Elegy to trash his own community

J.D. Vance: Netflix’s Hillbilly Elegy movie undercuts his whole message.

Hundreds of thousands of ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ sold after author JD Vance’s selection as veep candidate

Publisher plans massive ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ reprints to meet demand for VP candidate JD Vance’s book

'Ignorant and lazy': Appalachians respond to 'Hillbilly Elegy' with their own book

Opinion: JD Vance, Much Like Trump, Is A Media Creation

From Never Trumper to MAGA town crier, J.D. Vance evolves, ascends as Trump’s vice presidential pick

How JD Vance became the new king of America

JD Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" ignores the real Appalachian crisis it portrays

J.D. Vance: More radical than MAGA?

GOP vice presidential pick Vance revisits Appalachian roots as bitter divide over memoir lingers

Hillbilly Elegy reveals JD Vance as a man of contradictions

What ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ can tell us about JD Vance and his right-wing beliefs