it was Vance’s grandmother who raised him as his mother struggled with addiction — a painful story that Vance recounts in his best-selling 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy. “Mamaw was in so many ...

After Donald Trump selected J.D. Vance — the subject of the 2020 film and wrote the book on which it’s based — as his running ...

“Mamaw had her dreams but never the opportunity ... They didn’t ask to be here, and I owed them my best. But the sacrifice was monumental. According to the Center for American Progress ...

At the time, he was, perhaps, best known for his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, which details his family’s working class, rural roots and being raised by his Mamaw. “My most important American ...

“Mamaw had her dreams but never the opportunity ... They didn’t ask to be here, and I owed them my best. But the sacrifice was monumental. According to the Center for American Progress ...

As he did in his memoir, Vance credits his grandmother “Mamaw,” with helping him overcome a harrowing childhood. “I had a guardian angel by my side. She was an old woman who could barely ...

Mamaw was a lifelong Democrat who distrusted ... "I knew how the educated tended to feel about religion: at best, provincial and stupid; at worst, evil. ... I didn't think to myself, 'I am not ...

You knew J.D. Vance was going to make it all about Mamaw. America is a funny old place. Not many people know J.D. Vance’s grandmother, the person. A lot of them know Mamaw the literary character ...

“Mamaw never spent a day in high school ... and abetting an abortion,’” the horrified clinician reported. “Best not to so much as touch the patient who is miscarrying.” ...

Meet Caroline keen known to loved ones as “Mamaw Nell.” She celebrated with cake today surrounded by her family, many of whom she helped raise through the generations. Her family tells us she ...