The Next President: The JD Vance Story

The Next President: The J.D. Vance Story is an unflinching, novelistic chronicle of a man shaped by chaos, sharpened by hardship, and ultimately thrust onto the world stage. Born into the violent decay of Middletown, Ohio—where addiction, poverty, and generational trauma hang in the air like rust—young J.D. Vance fights to survive the wreckage of a broken home. His fierce, chain-smoking grandmother, Mamaw, becomes his anchor and battlefield instructor, teaching him that life is war and the only way out is through.

From a childhood of instability and bruised knuckles, Vance claws his way into the U.S. Marine Corps, where discipline replaces turmoil. Iraq tests him, bends him, and forges him. Yale Law School transforms him again, throwing him into a world of power, privilege, and polite predation. Guided by brilliance, stubbornness, and the stabilizing love of Usha, he emerges as a man who can walk between two Americas—one dying, one delusional.

His memoir becomes a national flashpoint. Silicon Valley recruits him. Politics consumes him. The country fractures, and Vance stands at the fault line, caught between loyalty to his people and the machinery of elites who never understood them.

By the time he enters the U.S. Senate—battle-scarred, controversial, and unignorable—America is at a crossroads. And so is he.

This is not merely the story of a man. It is the story of a culture, a class, and a country fighting for its soul. A story of rage and redemption, of systems failing and people rising, of one man who refused to surrender—to his past, to his critics, or to the fate America seemed destined for.