Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” Reflects Appalachia’s Shift to the Right
Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild has been speaking with Trump supporters for her forthcoming book.
As Donald Trump selected Ohio Senator J.D. Vance to be his vice-presidential candidate Monday, we look at the record of the 39-year-old political rookie, who rose to fame after writing the memoir Hillbilly Elegy and who once compared Trump to Hitler and called him unfit for the presidency. He was elected to the Senate in 2022 with backing from right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, and he has since…