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  1. A key reason for Hillbilly Elegy's widespread popularity following its publication in 2016 was its role in explaining Donald Trump's rise to the top of the Republican Party. [19] In particular, it purportedly explains why white, working-class voters became attracted to Trump as a political leader. [ 20 ]

    • J. D. Vance
    • 2016
  2. Jul 17, 2024 · At one time, liberal and conservative centrists alike hailed Vance’s bestselling 2016 memoir of making it out of rural, poverty-stricken Appalachia, transforming himself from a tempestuous...

    • Aja Romano
  3. Aug 10, 2016 · After reading “Hillbilly Elegy,” you can easily understand why. This is a historically peculiar election cycle, boisterously disrupted by outsiders, one of whom found the perfect...

  4. Jul 23, 2024 · This helps explain why Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 and why Joe Biden, who comes from working-class roots, was able to recapture some of those lost votes in 2020.

  5. Jul 17, 2024 · And, in 2016, as the book found itself on the New York Times bestseller list and the display window of every Barnes and Noble in the country, Vance made his position on Donald Trumps candidacy...

    • Nick Hilton
  6. Aug 5, 2016 · In the memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” new at No. 9 on the hardcover nonfiction list, Vance details his childhood in a poor Ohio town among a chaotic extended family with a mother who turned to drugs...

  7. Jul 16, 2024 · It explored his first-hand experience of the poverty and addiction of poor, white communities and became a bestseller just as Trump rose to power.

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