Ohio Senator JD Vance was nominated Monday for the Republican vice president position by former President Donald Trump, giving Vance and his bestselling book "Hillbilly Elegy" a renewed boost in ...

Netflix’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ showed us years ago that JD Vance is full of contradictions Hillbilly Elegy leans into Vance's image as a son of the Rust Belt. In reality, Trump's VP is best ...

Vance, who grew up in Jackson, Kentucky, and Middletown, Ohio, skyrocketed to fame as the author of "Hillbilly Elegy." The book later turned into a movie of the same name that was released in 2020.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was first published in 2016 when J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” was released. Now, sales of the so-called memoir are again surging. On the day of Trump’s announcement, the ...