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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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"It is something else altogether; it's a psychological profile of a horrible family."
"Mary Trump's memoir is a modern-day Bleak House."
"Writing with the sharp eye of a perpetual outsider in her own family, Trump presents a melancholic portrait of their complicity in her uncle's worst behaviors."
"I expected to encounter some seamy stuff in any history of the Trump family's fortune ..."
"Mary, who was also a graduate student of comparative literature, knows how to tell a story and choose an anecdote ..."
"Too Much and Never Enough is a deftly written account of cross-generational trauma, but it is also suffused by an almost desperate sadness—sadness in the stories it tells and sadness in the telling, too."
"a ghastly tale laden with profound dynastic anguish: something like Succession crossed with Bleak House ..."
"The revelations in Too Much and Never Enough may not change our picture of the president much, but they've certainly unnerved him and his siblings."
"A modern-day Moloch, the president expects the nation to sacrifice itself."
"it goes on, coming to a head in the unbelievable story of Fred Trump's will."
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