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“... In​ the first pages of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (2016), J.D. Vance admits that he’s ‘especially skilful’ at charming older men. His mother has had many boyfriends, as well as five husbands, and Vance spent his childhood ‘navigating various father figures ...”

“... hymns to carnage and theories about which ‘deep state’ forces were behind the shooting. J.D. Vance, author of the dads-and-crawdads memoir Hillbilly Elegy and favourite at the start of the convention to be Trump’s pick for vice president, quickly issued a piercing dog-whistle. ‘Today is not just some isolated incident,’ he posted on X. ‘The ...”

“... J.D. Vance​ begins Hillbilly Elegy, his memoir of growing up poor in the American Midwest, with a confession: ‘I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve accomplished nothing great in my life, certainly nothing that would justify a complete stranger paying money to read about it … I wrote this book because I’ve achieved something quite ordinary, which doesn’t happen to most kids who grow up like me ...”

“... to anoint, without any vetting, a successor who would embody ‘MAGA: The Next Generation’. JD Vance, formerly known as James Donald Bowman, James David Hamel and J.D. Vance, now strangely rebranded without the stops, is a self-styled ‘hillbilly’ whose backwoods was Middletown, Ohio, an industrial suburb of ...”

“... tooth decay in babies weaned on Mountain Dew. Hillbilly Elegy, the bestselling memoir by J.D. Vance, Trump’s running mate, is another iteration of Caudill’s fatalistic story. According to Vance, whose grandparents moved from Jackson, Kentucky to Ohio in the 1950s, the town they left isundoubtedly full of the nicest ...”

“... Yet many of national conservatism’s intellectual lodestars, such as the Ohio senator J.D. Vance (who appeared remotely in London, extolling the virtues of guns and coal), are better known for their fiery denunciations of liberal opponents than their detailed policy proposals. Online the National Conservative movement can appear diffuse and ...”

“... who ran a strong campaign in red Ohio, lost by 6.6 points to the right-wing pseudo-populist J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir about growing up among poor whites in Appalachia that made him a darling of liberals in New York and Hollywood. Not long after Ron Howard’s adaptation of Hillbilly Elegy came out in 2020, ...”