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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man
Maybe someday
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97/100Author:
Mary L. Trump
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Date:
July 14, 2020
The only niece of President Donald Trump, a trained clinical psychologist, delves into 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.
What The Reviewers Say
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. 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. But she also brings the grudges of estrangement.
... detail—memorably specific, fundamentally human and decidedly weird...gives this book an undeniable power, even if its narrative is bookended by Mary’s strenuous efforts to put her training as a clinical psychologist to use.
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.
Horror clouds every page. I expected to encounter some seamy stuff in any history of the Trump family’s fortune.
