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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsanyone ordering mary trump's book? i can't decide if
i should order a copy (amazon has ten bucks off pre orders) or wait for the PDF.
curious but in a way i hate to give money to anyone in that family. maybe i should look at it like i'm just giving money to the publisher since she already got an advance. here's the description amazon has up:
"In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donalds 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 worlds health, economic security, and social fabric.
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 Donalds place in the family spotlight and Ivanas penchant for regifting to her grandmothers frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trumps favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimers.
Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists, and journalists have sought to parse Donald J. Trumps 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 insiders perspective but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the worlds most powerful and dysfunctional families."
greyl
(22,990 posts)I don't see narrator credits yet for the audio version: https://amzn.to/3i7YQQi but if it's Mary, I'll get that one.
A Brand New World
(1,119 posts)Cant wait to read all of the family secrets!
safeinOhio
(32,713 posts)The Art of the Deal.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)Why not wait until others have read and reviewed it thoroughly and then decide?
KY
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Works for me!
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)It will be a valuable contribution to the literature on Trump.
Other mental health professionals have already provided tremendous insight, but this book will go a step further. I also want to support Mary Trump's courage in writing this book.
Another motive is to see a book that infuriates Trump become a best-seller a month before it is even released. That was one reason I pre-ordered Woodward's book and several others that Trump tweeted about--to help them become best sellers.
KentuckyWoman
(6,690 posts)That whole family can buzz off.