 Some of the things you need to know about J.D. Vance, and I think this is fairly objective. It's just facts. If you want to comment at any point, email tonywnis.com. I'll be the first to admit he said that I've accomplished nothing great in my life. Vance wrote in the introduction to Hillbilly Elegy, a great book and a great movie, his best-selling 2016 memoir about his life growing up in a working-class family in post-industrial Ohio, I am not a senator, a governor, or a former cabinet secretary. I haven't started a billion-dollar company or a world-changing nonprofit. In 2015,