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THE AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT'S ORIGIN STORY
‘Essential reading for this moment in history’ New York Times
'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist
‘Brilliant … offers an acute insight into the reasons voters have put their trust in Trump’ Observer
J. D. Vance grew up in the hills of Kentucky. His family and friends were the people most of the world calls rednecks, hillbillies or white trash.
In this deeply moving memoir, Vance tells the story of his family’s demons and of America’s problem with generational neglect. How his mother struggled against, but never fully escaped, the legacies of abuse, alcoholism, poverty and trauma. How his grandparents, ‘dirt poor and in love’, gave everything for their children to chase the American dream. How Vance beat the odds to graduate from Yale Law School. And how America came to abandon and then condescend to its white working classes, until they reached breaking point.
‘A beautiful memoir but it is equally a work of cultural criticism about white working-class America … Vance offers a compelling explanation for why it’s so hard for someone who grew up the way he did to make it … a riveting book’ Wall Street Journal
** Now a major-motion picture directed by Ron Howard and starring Amy Adams, Glenn Close, and Gabriel Basso **
Anonym
2025-07-20
Fascinerande bok om, om en man (4 år yngre än mig) som jag inte tycker om men, som jag kunde bli kompis med om vi vuxit upp i samma stad.
Grace
2025-03-22
Listening to this book, learning about not only how JD Vance grew up but also learning about his extended family was a rather interesting experience. The JD Vance in this book compared with the JD Vance we’re seeing in the White House in 2025 is literally two different people, and yet it’s one and the same person. I reckon Vance grew up in a violent and uncanny household, but the way he seems to come to terms with it in this book and the way he’s behaving himself now in 2025 makes no sense at all. The progresses he does in this book personality wise doesn’t m match up at all with the JD Vance we’re seeing in the White House 20255. JD Vance in 2025 has become his “family past” at last! A more aggressive, arrogant, spiteful and a grossly ignorant person than him is hard to find! I do wonder whether he’s has two different & very distinct personalities or if he’s simply a person who easily changes everything he’s, as long as the paycheck is high enough? What can I say? The personality change he’s gone through is bizarre, a very peculiar & sad affair! Regards, Grace
Anonym
2025-01-25
Not a Trump fan but this is probably the best biography I have read since Shoe Dog (Nike).
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