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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man Hardcover – July 14, 2020
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Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, New York, 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 firsthand witness to countless holiday meals and 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 regifting 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.
- Print length240 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication dateJuly 14, 2020
- Dimensions6 x 1 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101982141468
- ISBN-13978-1982141462
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"Mesmerizing beach reading and a memorable opposition research dump...It is salacious, venomous and well-sourced...Yet the narrative remains compelling." —The Guardian
"A delicious tell-all that does in fact tell all in a way one longs for a tell-all to do.” —Vogue
"Dripping with snideness, vibrating with rage, and gleaming with clarity—a deeply satisfying read." —Kirkus (starred review)
"Mary Trump’s compelling saga of one very unhappy family does more than just provide probing insights into her uncle’s disturbing inner world. It’s also a first-rate primer on the chaotic inner workings of an administration that has shocked the world by failing to take the basic steps required to keep Americans safe during the coronavirus pandemic. —Boston Globe
"After many, many Trump books, this is an essential one." —Vanity Fair
"[A] deftly written account of cross-generational trauma...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." —Washington Post
Mary’s clarity, training, discipline and sharp eye help make her a reliable narrator, and she’s a fluid, witty writer to boot…She’s a true insider in an era when “insider” accounts of the president are a dime-a-dozen — and that what she’s written is likely to be indelible.—Bloomberg
"Mary L. Trump comes closer than anyone to describing the making of a seemingly heartless person who won his way to the White House...[A]n insightful, well-crafted memoir"—CNN
"You can see why President Trump doesn’t want anyone to read this thing. It gives the lie to many of his most cherished myths about himself."—Los Angeles Times
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- Publisher : Simon & Schuster; 1st edition (July 14, 2020)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 240 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1982141468
- ISBN-13 : 978-1982141462
- Item Weight : 13.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #21,138 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #93 in US Presidents
- #125 in Political Leader Biographies
- #736 in Memoirs (Books)
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Customers find the book easy to read and relatable. They appreciate the author's insightful and thoughtful account of the development of Donald Trump. The writing quality is described as clear and understandable. Readers praise the empathy and courage of the author in telling the story of the Trump family. However, some feel the book is not worth their time or money, finding it dull and depressing.
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"...A disheartening, but fascinatingly fast read, Mary L.'s writing is to be admired for its honesty and lack of tawdry gossip and sensationalism...." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2020The Death of Truth
Given all the pre-publication hoopla about this book, I wasn't sure that it could live up to the hype. It is the story of a stereotypical dysfunctional extended family. "The sins of the father are inflicted on the children" is the storyline. No one survives untouched, and one of the most damaged is the oldest son, the father of the author. He dies at an early age because he is unable to withstand the continuous onslaught of the sociopathic father. But an even greater consequence is story of the second oldest son, who develops a wounded ego that compensates for an internal sense of inferiority. He typifies the old joke, "He didn't have a sense of inferiority; he just was inferior." Unfortunately, the Donald doesn't understand that and is fed and enabled by never being held to account for anything. He develops a mind that is detached from reality and cannot distinguish between lies and the truth.
The tragedies of this family are compounded by the fact that perhaps the most dysfunctional member of the family became the President of the United States. She does not try to explain or to understand how this happened. As a clinical psychologist, she is well qualified to make an assessment of the mental capacities (or lack thereof) of our 45th President. She isn't joking when she compares him to a spoiled 3-year child who knows no discipline or self-control. He lives solely in fear of being discovered as a fraud and demands continuous obeisance to feed his wounded ego, hence the title.
The book is well written and spell-binding as the storyline develops. Of course, her perspective is from an understanding of how her father, Freddy, was abused and rejected while her uncle was given everything literally. No one ever said no to him. She develops this theme in great detail, but then she seems to quickly skip over the impact of his diet that would literally kill a horse. That alone would be sufficient to produce a deranged mind.
The media and the interviews have picked the juiciest quotes to tantalize the public, and that produced one of the largest initial print runs for Simon & Schuster. She has outsold John Bolton, which probably wounded him a lot. He already has quickly disappeared from the media scene and has been upstaged by her in every sense of the word.
We are in the midst of a real Shakespearean tragedy that is still unfolding after three years in office. We are witnessing the unraveling of a personality as he takes the nation down with him. We have yet to tally the lost lives that occurred as the result of his total self-absorption and lack of empathy. In his mind, the whole world literally revolves around him.
Some people have questioned her motivation in writing the book. They claimed she is an aggrieved loser who is only seeking revenge. I see every reason to believe, that because she has seen the person up close for decades, that she really is scared of the damage he would continue to do to this nation if allowed to serve in office for another term. I doubt that she believes that he would take her suggestion and resign. In my opinion, she simply didn't want to appear that she was intent upon "doing him in." In fact, in spite of her first-hand revelations, I suspect that these facts will have little or no impact on his most ardent supporters who appear to be just as deranged as he is. He has tapped into a segment of society that is fearful of becoming a minority in a country where they have enjoyed the entitlements of white supremacy for generations. His continuous attacks on the media and the intelligentsia play into the resentments of the poor white trash (for want of a better phrase.) The evangelicals will support him as long as he is against abortion and hates gays. One of her most apt phrases was that his supporters are the kind of people that he would never associate with except at a political rally.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2020To understand the person who Too Much and Never Enough calls in its subtitle “the world’s most dangerous man,” you must understand his family. “Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” said Tolstoy, and Dr. Trump has delivered 211 pages of testimony of a very unhappy family in this slim, hardcover first edition. Unlike the books that have focused on Dr. Trump’s uncle’s presidency, his business (or lack thereof), and the man’s own ghost-written tomes, this book – with cutting anecdotes and tense recollections – intimately depicts a family whose self-consuming dynamics helped make the man we all seem to know, in one way or another, today.
Those who have known a dominating, all-powerful seeming patriarch or family member whose idea of parenting and caring was to project onto others and place them into a pre-arranged picture in their mind’s eye may recognize the patterns at work here in the Trump family. Fred Trump, Dr. Trump’s grandfather, is depicted as the center and origin of this family’s oppressive dynamic. Fred is depicted as absent, stern, and of limited emotional range, whose original master plan was to mold his eldest son, Fred Jr. or “Freddy” in his own image – with no real time or attention paid to his daughters or other son’s aspirations. The failure of Freddy, who is Dr. Trump’s father, to be shaped into the real estate scion styled in his own image is seized upon by his other children, and in particular Donald, to gain their father’s favor, money, and largesse. Freddy’s fall is what allows for Donald’s rise.
Dr. Trump recounts her father’s abuse by her grandfather in painful detail: We see Freddy’s dreams, independence, and aspirations crushed repeatedly as his father denied him his own personal desires, such as flying, ignored his son’s achievements, such as completion of the ROTC, and drove him to alcoholism, divorce, and ultimately his early death. Freddy, who is depicted as never being able to abandon the possibility of his father’s attention and love, is trapped. A tortured loop of escape and dependence is created as every time Freddy carves out some modicum of independence in his life it is taken away from him and he is forced to stand before his father, who doles out money and disdain in equal measures to “save” him. The ultimate indignity, when Freddy dies all too young at 42, is Fred’s decision to ignore his son’s wishes to be cremated and ashes spread in the Atlantic. Dr. Trump’s father is buried in his urn, his name etched on a tombstone originally purchased in advance by his father for himself.
Donald bears witness to all this as a child and as an adult and it alters him, as he becomes his own brother’s bully, his father’s “cat’s meow,” and the means by which he vicariously can realize his dreams of seeing the legacy of a family empire emerge through a male heir. Freddy’s “trap” becomes Donald’s destiny, his means to power and to satiate his own desires and ambition. Fred hid weaknesses, as did Donald. He tolerated cronyism and favoritism, as did Donald. Both defined their relationships with others based on their degree of obedience and utility. Dr. Trump draws a pattern, where we see how the sins of the father shaped Donald as a child and then as an adult: Maryanne doing young Donald’s homework for him, young Donald hiring a smart neighbor kid to cheat for him the SATs, becomes Donald cheating on tax abatements and Donald’s ghostwritten books – one of which a young Dr. Trump was even briefly hired by Donald to write. Donald will grant Maryanne a favor and help her secure her first judgeship as he felt he could use another ally when building his casinos in Atlantic City. Youngest sibling Robert will be sent out as the family messenger, and finally the tool for threats and anger when Dr. Trump refuses to agree to the terms of Fred’s willing cutting his family line out of their inheritance. It goes on.
By the time we see Fred Trump in his senile years, as he is slowly losing his faculties, we see the family treating him with the exact same kind of absence and disdain that he treated others with: weak, embarrassing, no longer useful.
By the time internecine fighting finally erupts over how their father’s estate is to be inherited, it is of no surprise and part of a well-worn pattern: a family united not out of mutual affection but of mutual interest, looking out for what they believe is theirs. Together, they stand ready to cast out an entire “bloodline,” Freddy Trump’s descendants – including cutting off their access to healthcare as a negotiating tactic because they knew a newly born grandnephews desperately needed it – because they truly believed his children did not deserve anything.
And by the time I finished Too Much and Never Enough, it was with the growing and unsettling realization that the President of the United States treats us all no better than he does members of his own family. I suspect that many readers will finish this book and feel the same.
Top reviews from other countries
- Pamela HadderReviewed in Canada on January 28, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Eye-opening account by family
It’s a good book - heaven help the USA
- Glenn FReviewed in Sweden on November 29, 2022
5.0 out of 5 stars Both fastinating and scary
Well written, informative and entertaining on how this childish mad man came to be as vain and as twisted as he clearly is...
- Barbara B.Reviewed in Brazil on October 1, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Courageous
An extremely courageous, revealing book, interesting because it is written from the perspective of a family member who grew up witnessing much of what she has written, but also with the knowledge of a professional in the area of psychology who understands the process of character formation. Ms Trump was courageous for revealing how she herself suffered, along with others, in the toxic environment that she describes, knowing that she might be accused of being revengeful by the president and his supporters. She pursued with her endeavor anyway, feeling the country needed to know.
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Cecilia c.Reviewed in Mexico on September 9, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Buen libro
Llego antes de lo esperado e intacto
- Lisa20Reviewed in India on January 24, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Must read
Must read for people that have to deal with difficult family dynamics, this books shed a light on what goes wrong in raising kids esp why someone goes in the Cluster B spectrum. Its courageous of Mary Trump to live the life she has lived and come out in open with her story, not just let bygones be bygones which many of us do.