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After Vance was announced as Trump's running mate in 2024, sales of the book and viewership for the film on Netflix increased dramatically. [ 29 ] In July 2024, a widely-shared post on Twitter falsely claimed that a passage in Hillbilly Elegy described Vance having sexual intercourse with a rubber glove secured between cushions on a couch.
In 2010–2011, Vance wrote for David Frum's "FrumForum" website under the name J. D. Hamel. [22] [23] Although Hillbilly Elegy states that he adopted his grandparents' surname of Vance upon his marriage in 2014, [24] the name change actually occurred in 2013, as Vance was about to graduate from Yale with a Juris Doctor degree. [1] [18]
In September 2024, the film's director, Ron Howard, expressed disappointment and "surprise" over JD Vance's rhetoric and role as the 2024 United States vice presidential candidate for the Republican ticket, saying "we didn't talk a lot of politics when we were making the movie because I was interested in Vance's upbringing and that survival ...
“Hillbilly Elegy” is a memoir written by JD Vance and recounts the events and experiences of his own life. The book details his family’s struggles with poverty, addiction and instability ...
In 2017, after the Trump victory, the book finally topped the bestseller charts. This was off the back of an interview with Megyn Kelly, a conservative news anchor notorious for her spat with Trump.
Such is the case for J.D. Vance, Donald Trump’s recently announced vice-presidential running mate. The Ohio Republican was first elected to the Senate in 2022 after defeating Democratic Rep. Tim ...
As the Trump campaign seeks to distance itself from Project 2025, the conservative road map spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) has written a forward for a new book by ...
Vance's mother's parents, Bonnie Blanton and Jim Vance Sr., whom he called Mamaw and Papaw, were from Jackson, Kentucky, a city of around 2,100 people in the Appalachian region.