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All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way

Maybe someday

38

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

65/100

Critics

10/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Fred C. Trump III

Publisher:

Gallery Books

Date:

July 30, 2024

Fred Trump never asked for any of this: the divisive politics, the endless headlines, a hijacked last name, the heat-seeking uncle, rising from real estate scion to gossip column fixture to The Apprentice host to President of the United States. Fred just wanted a happy life and a satisfying career. But a fight for his son's health and safety forced him onto a center stage that he had never wanted. And now, at a crucial point for our nation, he is stepping forward again.

What The Reviewers Say

Manuel Roig-Franzia,
The Washington Post
At times, All in the Family — which bogs down when the author’s life and real estate career are the subjects, but is pretty juicily entertaining when he writes about his aunts and uncles — reads like a cathartic exercise.
Lloyd Green,
The Guardian (UK)
A well-paced and engrossing read..
Peter Conrad,
The Observer (UK)
Fred III, the author of this memoir, aspires to be "a different kind of Trump" but coyly trades on his tainted surname.

Kirkus
[Trump] maintains, not always successfully, that this is an overview of his family and life independent of his "polarizing" uncle.