Hillbilly Elegy

(Newser) - Vice President JD Vance's memoir Hillbilly Elegy, chronicling the impacts of drug addiction, was recently used to smuggle drugs into an Ohio prison. The book was one of three items that 30-year-old Austin Siebert of Maumee, Ohio, soaked with narcotics and mailed to Grafton Correctional Institution, disguised as Amazon...

(Newser) - Sen. JD Vance is preparing to dissolve the vestiges of a charitable effort he launched in Ohio after publication of his bestselling memoir "Hillbilly Elegy," the Republican vice presidential nominee's campaign said. Vance formed two like-named nonprofits starting in 2016 to address problems in Ohio and other...

(Newser) - Before he was Donald Trump's 2024 running mate or a Republican senator, JD Vance was the author of Hillbilly Elegy. His 2016 memoir, and its 2020 film adaptation, are now climbing the charts again thanks to interest in Vance after Trump named him as his VP pick, NBC News...