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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
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In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security, and social fabric. Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents' large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald. A first-hand witness to countless holiday meals and family interactions, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humor to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald's place in the family spotlight and Ivana's penchant for re-gifting to her grandmother's frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump's favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer's. Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists, and journalists have sought to parse Donald J. Trump's lethal flaws. Mary L. Trump has the education, insight, and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not just because of her insider's perspective but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world's most powerful and dysfunctional families.
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"The most harrowing sections deal with Freddy Trump's yearslong decline ..."
"Mary, who was also a graduate student of comparative literature, knows how to tell a story and choose an anecdote ..."
"Yet even in the darkest of Dickens novels, no family comes across quite as mendacious, grasping and avaricious as the Trumps."
"a ghastly tale laden with profound dynastic anguish: something like Succession crossed with Bleak House ..."
"Despite Mary's insistence that the media has failed to cover the issues she writes about in this book, the truth is that no political figure in modern history has received more negative attention or had more obvious flaws."
"that cripples a person emotionally and cognitively ..."
"In her explosive portrait of the Trump family, Mary Trump, the president's only niece, traces Donald Trump's fear of persecution — along with what she terms his various other insecurities and pathologies such as narcissistic personality disorder — back to its source: his severely emotionally damaged parents ..."
"Too Much and Never Enough doubles as mesmerizing beach reading and a memorable opposition research dump, in time for the party conventions."
"Dripping with snideness, vibrating with rage, and gleaming with clarity—a deeply satisfying read."
"Mary Trump brings to this account the insider perspective of a family member, the observational and analytical abilities of a clinical psychologist and the writing talent of a former graduate student in comparative literature."
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