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A Slate reviewer delivered a scathing verdict on Vice President JD Vance’s new memoir, arguing the book accidentally revealed how much politics has “corrupted” its author.<\/p>\n

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“Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith” is Vance’s first book since “Hillbilly Elegy” and was released Tuesday in what many read as a soft launch for a 2028 run. In a review published Thursday, Molly Olmstead wrote that the book is essentially two books crammed into one. For its first 177 pages, she wrote, it’s a “thoughtful” meditation on trauma, fatherhood, and Vance’s winding path from evangelical Christianity to atheism to Catholicism.<\/p>\n

Then, Olmstead argued, it falls apart. <\/p>\n

“From that point on, Communion<\/em>, which came out on Tuesday,is a stiff and unimaginative political memoir. It deploys an eye-roll-worthy staff of straw men as it defends Trump\u2019s policies,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

The break comes right after Vance nods to his “evolution from Trump critic to Trump supporter” and pivots to defending the administration. <\/p>\n

Olmstead traced the divide to timing, noting much of the thoughtful first half appears to predate Vance’s 2022 Senate run, with one passage lifted almost verbatim from a 2020 essay. She flagged a jarring later passage about Vance stockpiling ammunition over the “China virus” as the moment the tone sours. The book, she concluded, is a window into his devolution.<\/p>\n

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“The tragedy of Vance\u2019s new book is that this split reminds you of who he used to be. It\u2019s not only that he squandered a decent beginning, but that he revealed how far he has fallen from the thoughtful young man who once had something original to say,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

She found the ending unnerving, citing Vance’s wish to return America to a “Western Christian civilization” given he “just may be our future president.”<\/p>\n

Olmstead’s critique comes after The Wall Street Journal’s Barton Swaim ripped the book for “egregious sloppiness,” and readers buried it in one-star Goodreads reviews within hours.<\/p>\n

She concluded the book offers a “window into just how much the thoughtful boy in Hillbilly Elegy<\/em> allowed himself to be corrupted by politics.”<\/p>\n

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