What JD Vance's book 'Hillbilly Elegy' can tell us about Trump's vice-presidential pick and his right-wing beliefs

For JD Vance, Donald Trump's newly minted pick for vice president, the interrelation between the man and his story is everything.

Not since a young lawyer called Barack Obama - with ambitions for reaching the Illinois state senate - published Dreams from My Father in 1995, has a memoir served to propel a political career quite like Vance's 2016 book, Hillbilly Elegy.

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