Vance’s Book Discontinued by German Publisher for Being ‘Demagogic, Exclusionary’
‘At the time of publication, the book made a valuable contribution to understanding the disintegration of U.S. society,’ a spokesman for the publishing house says.
Senator Vance’s 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” will no longer be printed by a German publisher after they reclassified the book as being “demagogic” and “exclusionary” less than two weeks after he was named President Trump’s running mate.
According to the German magazine Der Spiegel, Mr. Vance’s book — which instantly became a New York Times bestseller and was later adapted into a movie starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close — is now viewed by the Munich-based publishing house Ullstein as being too extreme for readers now that the senator has moved to being an ardently nationalist, pro-Trump lawmaker and away from the anti-Trump, self-described “hillbilly.”
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