(New York) Former President Donald Trump’s choice of JD Vance as his running mate has led to a surge in sales ofHillbilly Elegyhis best-selling memoir published in 2016.
A HarperCollins spokesperson told The Associated Press that more than 600,000 copies have been sold since Mr. Trump’s announcement on July 15. The total 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.
Mr. Vance’s book had already sold more than three million copies before Mr. Trump chose him as his running mate.
Hillbilly Elegywhich Ron Howard adapted into a 2020 feature film, chronicles Mr. Vance’s childhood in Ohio and his family’s roots in rural Kentucky.
After Mr. Trump’s landslide victory in 2016, the book was widely cited as essential reading for opponents of Mr. Trump trying to understand his appeal to the white working class, though some critics deemed it a narrow and misleading portrait of Appalachia and American poverty.