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In February 2024, JD Vance, at the time a U.S. senator from Ohio, read the Dr. Seuss book, "Oh the Places You'll Go" on the Senate floor to mark Vivek's fourth birthday.
J.D. didn't have a relationship with his father, David Bowman (b. 1959, d. 2023). "Dad gave me up for adoption when I was 6," he wrote in his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy . "After the adoption, he ...
Although JD Vance's turbulent upbringing and strained relationship with his mother was a major component of “Hillbilly Elegy,” both the book and the 2020 film adaptation, he didn’t consult ...
A 2017 Brookings Institution report noted that "J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy became a national bestseller for its raw, emotional portrait of growing up in and eventually out of a poor rural community riddled by drug addiction and instability." Vance's account anecdotally confirmed the report's conclusion that family stability is essential to ...
After Bowman was adopted by his mother's third husband, Bob Hamel, his mother changed his name to James David Hamel to remove his father's name while using an uncle's name to preserve his nickname, JD. [6] [7] Vance has written that his childhood was marked by poverty and abuse, and that his mother struggled with drug addiction. [8]
Gabriel Basso as JD Vance. Owen Asztalos as young JD; Amy Adams as Beverly "Bev" Vance, JD's mother Tierney Smith as young Bev; Glenn Close as Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance, JD's grandmother Sunny Mabrey as young Bonnie; Haley Bennett as Lindsay Vance, JD's older sister; Freida Pinto as Usha, JD's girlfriend; Bo Hopkins as Papaw Vance, JD's grandfather
JD Vance and his 2016 memoir about growing up in Ohio (Getty, Harper) ... published Dreams from My Father in 1995, has a memoir served to propel a political career quite like Vance’s 2016 book, ...
"Hillbilly Elegy" thrust Ohio Sen. JD Vance into the national spotlight. Now he's Trump's vice-presidential running mate. What 'Hillbilly Elegy' reveals about childhood, politics of Trump VP pick ...