JD Vance’s book “Hillbilly Elegy” was published in 2016. AP “When we spoke around the time that I knew him, he was not involved in politics or claimed to be particularly interested.

JD Vance’s book “Hillbilly Elegy” was published in 2016. AP “When we spoke around the time that I knew him, he was not involved in politics or claimed to be particularly interested.

There’s nothing wrong with reading “Hillbilly Elegy,” but we need to keep in focus that it is the story of Vance’s perspective of Appalachian people, not the story of the people themselves.

NEW YORK (AP) — 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.

JD Vance celebrates his Republican primary win for Ohio's U.S. Senate seat in 2022. Yes. Vance described a childhood consumed by poverty and abuse in "Hillbilly Elegy," his best-selling 2016 memoir.

A photograph of Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance. "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis," the 2016 memoir from Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, once again began ...

Ron Howard’s “Hillbilly Elegy” (2020) is a somewhat strained, compassionately told story about the power of family. The film chronicles United States Senator J.D. Vance’s upbringing in a ...