Former President Donald Trump’s selection of J.D. Vance His selection as running mate helped boost sales of his best-selling 2016 autobiography, “Hillbilly Elegy.”
A HarperCollins spokesperson told The Associated Press that more than 650,000 copies have been sold since Trump’s July 15 announcement, a total that includes print books, audiobooks and e-books.
“Hundreds of thousands of copies are being printed to meet retail demand,” the publisher said in a statement Thursday.
Vance’s book had already sold more than 3 million copies before Trump nominated him for the Republican nomination. Ron Howard’s 2020 film “Hillbilly Elegy” chronicled Vance’s childhood in Ohio and his family’s roots in rural Kentucky. After Trump’s stunning victory in 2016, This book has been widely cited It’s required reading for opponents trying to understand Trump’s appeal to working-class whites, but some critics have slammed it for being a narrow-minded and misleading portrayal of poverty in Appalachia and America.
