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James David Vance (born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984) is a venture capitalist, author, and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Ohio since 2023. [1] [2] A member of the Republican Party, he came to prominence with his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy . Born in Middletown, Ohio, Vance studied political science and ...
3 days ago · J.D. Vance rose to fame as the author of Hillbilly Elegy (2016), a best-selling memoir of his experiences growing up as a member of the white working class that was published as the United States was roiling with division over the upsurge in populist support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. A lawyer and venture capitalist, Vance parlayed the success of his memoir into a ...
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Aug 17, 2016 · J.D. Vance grew up in a Rust Belt town in Ohio, in a family from the hills of eastern Kentucky. His new memoir details the social isolation, poverty and addiction that afflict poor white communities.
Jun 28, 2016 · J.D. Vance grew up in the Rust Belt city of Middletown, Ohio, and the Appalachian town of Jackson, Kentucky. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school and served in Iraq. A graduate of the Ohio State University and Yale Law School, he has contributed to the National Review and is a principal at a leading Silicon Valley investment firm.
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Nov 24, 2020 · Published Nov 24, 2020 at 5:40 AM EST. By Samuel Spencer. FOLLOW. Hillbilly Elegy is now streaming on Netflix, and tells the story of J.D. Vance (played by Gabriel Basso), a law student who ...
May 3, 2022 · Mr. Vance, 37, grew up in Middletown, Ohio, where a grandfather had moved from Kentucky for a steel mill job. In the years after J.D. Vance was born in 1984, the city hollowed out as blue-collar ...
LC Class. HD8073.V37. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a bestselling 2016 memoir by J. D. Vance about the Appalachian values of his Kentucky family and the social and socioeconomic problems of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where his mother's parents moved when they were young.
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