Former President Donald Trump’s election of JD Vance as his running mate has led to a surge in sales of Hillbilly Elegy, his best-selling 2016 memoir.
A HarperCollins spokesman told The Associated Press that more than 650,000 copies have been sold since Trump took office. Announcement on July 15The total includes print books, audio books and e-books.
“We are printing hundreds of thousands of copies to meet the demand of our retail partners,” the publisher said on Thursday.
Vance’s book was already sold more than 3 million copies before Trump chose him for the Republicans. “Hillbilly Elegy,” which Ron Howard adapted as a feature film in 2020, tells of Vance’s childhood in Ohio and his family’s roots in rural Kentucky. After Trump’s overwhelming victory in 2016 The book was frequently cited as required reading for Trump opponents who want to understand his appeal to the white working class, even though some critics have criticized it as a narrow and misleading portrait of Appalachia and poverty in the United States.