The memoir-turned-film caught the political mood the year Donald Trump gained the Republican nomination in 2016 and won the US election
The Republican vice presidential nominee James David ‘JD’ Vance catapulted to fame with this memoir-turned-film ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ life, from a childhood consumed by poverty to a shot at gaining the second-highest role in US government, is like something out of a film., a Netflix drama starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close based on the Ohio senator’s bestselling 2016 memoir about the struggles of his childhood marked by his mother’s drug addiction and challenging family circumstances.
His grandmother, or “mamaw” as she’s called in the memoir and 2020 film, inspired him to work hard in school and get a job. Mr Vance served four years in the Marine Corps as a combat correspondent, including a tour in Iraq, before he graduated from Ohio State University and Yale Law School. In the lead-up to the 2016 election, when his memoir catapulted him to fame, Mr Vance said many of his friends from poor rural white communities would vote for Trump.
That all changed when he ran for Senate in 2022, making a 180-degree turn to score Trump’s endorsement, which helped him win the competitive contest.. “I think there are so many reasons I was wrong about Trump, but I’m happy that I was wrong about Trump,” he told “Picking JD Vance, the junior senator from Ohio, as his running mate suggests that Donald Trump must be feeling confident about winning the election,” says Dr Adam Quinn, associate professor in American and international politics at the University of Birmingham.
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