JD Vance

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JD Vance (2017)

James David "JD" Vance (born James Donald Bowman in Middletown , Ohio in 1984 ) is an American capital manager and writer.

Life

James David Vance's maternal family hails from Breathitt County and moved to Middletown in the Rust Belt , where Vance grew up in a working class family lost to economic change, unemployment, divorce and drug use. Thanks to a firm will from his maternal grandmother, Vance was able to graduate from school and leave town. When he was 18, he enlisted in the Marines . He graduated from Ohio State University (BA, 2009) and passed the Juris Doctor exam at Yale Law School in 2013 .

Vance works as a finance manager for a San Francisco investment firm that is part of a group of companies founded by Peter Thiel .

In 2016, Vance published an autobiographical pamphlet on the history of his family and their social and economic problems. The book, encouraged by his Yale professor Amy Chua , was published in June 2016. After an interview with The American Conservative magazine in July 2016, the book made it to the top of The New York Times Best Seller list in August 2016 and was at the top again in January 2017. In February 2017, over 700,000 copies of the book and digital edition had been sold.

After the sales success, Vance was hired as a commentator at CNN and the New York Times . Vance is being invited to speak about his book nationwide. After the presidential elections in 2016, he is considered to be a witness of the new American white lower class (also: " White Trash "), which in 2016 supposedly made the difference for the election of Donald Trump as president.

Vance lived in San Francisco with his wife, Usha, a lawyer who works for the presiding judge of the Supreme Court (2018), but moved back with his wife and son to his home region in Columbus , Ohio , in 2017 . Partisans of the Republicans in Ohio offered him a candidacy for the US Senate , which he rejects for the time being in order to maintain his moral distance from the establishment he criticized in the public image.

Works

  • Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis . Harper, New York 2016

literature

  • Mara Delius: Where there is nothing. How the American non-fiction book "Hillbilly Elegie" trashes the white underclass . Review, in: The Literary World , April 15, 2017, p. 28

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Billionaire and the Little Girl , NZZ, June 2, 2018 (title of the print edition, page 36)
  2. ^ A b c Karen Heller: "Hillbilly Elegy" made JD Vance the voice of the Rust Belt. But does he want that job? . In: The Washington Post , February 6, 2017
  3. ^ A b Shawn Donnan: "The people calling the shots for the past 30 years really screwed up" . Interview in: Financial Times, February 3, 2018, p. L & A3
personal data
SURNAME Vance, JD
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vance, James David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American capital manager and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Middletown, Ohio