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J.D. Vance shot to fame with his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, but the vice president’s net worth in 2025 proves his “hillbilly” days (however exaggerated they may have been in the first ...

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I started reading JD Vance's 2016 memoir " Hillbilly Elegy " on election day, 2020. I didn’t plan it this way. I’d been asked to review the film and I felt that I should read the book ...

Based on the bestselling memoir by J.D. Vance, HILLBILLY ELEGY is a modern exploration of the American Dream and three generations of an Appalachian family as told by its youngest member, a Yale ...

Sen. J.D. Vance’s improbable rise to becoming Donald Trump’s running mate started with his bestselling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy”—an unsparing look at poverty and economic malaise in ...

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