Former president Donald Trump’s Choice of JD Vance as his running mate, it led to a surge in sales of “Hillbilly Elegy,” his bestselling memoir released in 2016.
A HarperCollins spokesperson told The Associated Press that more than 650,000 copies have been sold since Trump’s election. announcement on July 15Total includes physical books, audiobooks, and e-books.
“We are printing hundreds of thousands of copies to meet demand from our retail partners,” the publisher announced Thursday.
Vance’s book had already sold out more than 3 million copies before Trump picked him for the Republican ticket. “Hillbilly Elegy,” which Ron Howard adapted into a 2020 feature film, chronicles Vance’s childhood in Ohio and his family’s roots in rural Kentucky. After Trump’s resounding victory in 2016, The book has been widely cited as essential reading for Trump opponents trying to understand his appeal to working-class whites, though some critics have criticized it for painting a narrow and misleading portrait of Appalachia and American poverty.
