Former President as his running mate has led to a surge in sales for BԪַHillbilly Elegy,BԪַ his best-selling memoir that came out in 2016.
A spokesperson for HarperCollins told The Associated Press that more than 600,000 copies have been sold since TrumpBԪַs announcement on July 15. The total includes physical books, audio books and e-books.
BԪַWe are printing hundreds of thousands of copies to fill the demand at our retail partners,BԪַ the publisher announced Thursday.
VanceBԪַs book already was a million seller before Trump chose him for the Republican ticket. BԪַHillbilly Elegy,BԪַ which Ron Howard adapted into a feature film released in 2020, tells of VanceBԪַs childhood in Ohio and his familyBԪַs roots in rural Kentucky.
After TrumpBԪַs stunning victory in 2016, as essential reading for Trump opponents trying to understand his appeal to working class whites, even as some critics faulted at as a narrow and misleading portrait of Appalachia and of poverty in the U.S.