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Author:
Mary L. Trump
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Date:
August 17, 2021
The niece of ex-President Donald Trump examines America's national trauma, rooted in our history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration's corrupt and immoral policies.
What The Reviewers Say
It is a less lurid read [than her last book] but a darker one too.
... a blunderbuss rant about the evils of America.
Readers seeking a self-help guide for facing and overcoming this nation’s traumatic history will be disappointed in The Reckoning. Charting a path forward is not its goal. The clinician in Mary Trump is seeking only to help us stop squirming and sit still long enough to turn inward—and stay facing inward until we recognize and whole-heartedly feel the extent of the traumas we and our nation have experienced and caused, from slavery to the COVID pandemic to political parties careening toward fascism while denying doing so.
She’s at her best, and on the firmest of ground, when she lays into her uncle’s manifest shortcomings.
