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    Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
    Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
    Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
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    Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

    Written by Mary L. Trump

    Narrated by Mary L. Trump

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    In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s 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 world’s 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 occupied 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.

    Editor's Note

    Political tell-all…

    The much-anticipated political tell-all that some members of the Trump family didn’t want published. Mary Trump, President Donald Trump’s niece and a trained psychotherapist, attempts to explain what makes the 45th president tick.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJul 14, 2020
    ISBN9781797113869
    Author

    Mary L. Trump

    Mary L. Trump holds a PhD from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies and taught graduate courses in trauma, psychopathology, and developmental psychology. She lives with her daughter in New York.

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    • 5/5
      A once in a lifetime book-event. This sad yet affirming piece offers a sense of comfort to those looking to ‘deal’ with the ongoing diaper fire that is Donald J Trump’s historically corrupt and incompetent presidency.

      The author’s words ring true and surely are true - this is a work of critical importance and I chalk it up to much more than family drama or politics. This is a plea, asking that we unite and agree around an obvious truth: Donald J Trump is a threat to us all.

      62 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Very insightful, given the author’s training and personal knowledge of her own family dynamic. Further confirmation of what so many of us (and the world) now sees. The horror of electing someone so unqualified as President. Very thoughtful and well written.

      36 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I love the one start reviews from people who didn't even read it.

      I really, really enjoyed this book. A Superb character study!

      15 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      This book is filled with extremist and brainwashing of an innocent girl from leftist camps and it's very sad. She does not even know how she has been forced into perfunctory and credulous beliefs, of even her own family. This book shows how the human mind can be distorted, and manifested into a corrupt mindset free of any truth, but only deviated opinion from common sense men or women.

      9 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Wow!!!! You have to go into this with an unbiased opinion. Doesn’t matter if you hate him or love him, left, right, Republican or Democrat. It gives you insight on why he’s the way he is.

      9 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Mary Trump is a captivating writer. This book is by no means a dramatic tell-all; it's a nuanced and even-keeled history, told by someone who is well versed in the study of human behavior. There's nothing sensationalist or salacious to be found within these pages. The story is, at its heart, a tragedy.

      8 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Confirms what I've suspected all along. A family void of real love except for money.

      6 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Excellent book. I am glad I took the time to listen to the audio book. Thanks to the author for her dedication to this country.

      4 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The title should’ve been, how to make a Narcissistic Sociopath.

      4 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Thank you to Mary for her honest and educated look at a very damaging, now historic, figure. If even a fraction of this is true (and I mean a fraction) it should have been enough to keep Donald away from any position of public authority, let alone the Oval Office. “Failing up” is real and Donald’s life history is a mortifying example.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I thought it was a good book although I’ll be honest it was really hard to find a like able character outside of the author and her brother. While I sympathized with her father her insistence that her grandfather’s lack of approval driving her father to drink bordered on whinny.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      The teaser is engulfed in bias...I can only imagine how the book is written. God help his niece.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      The book is good..the narration was a little annoying to hear

      3 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Trump will still win 2020, libs will cry salty tears.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      I feel that this book is written by a very jealous relative and an upset voter whose favorite presidential candidate Lost in 2016 and this is her attempt to change people’s minds about voting for Trump in 2020 (thus the timing of release of the book)
      To me it seems her jealousy comes from what she sees as her grandfathers favoritism to uncle Don over her dad Freddy. I think chapter 12 pretty much sums up WHY she wrote the book.
      For the most part I think this book is a lot of “hearsay” blended with revenge on Mary’s part.
      I did feel that she narrated it well.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Wow! The book says it all. A must read for all .

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      It was a great book, I almost felt bad for trump, ALMOST.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Tremendous courage and unstaggering honesty about one of the greatest challenges this country has ever faced. I recommend that everyone read this. Even if it changes nothing, it is still profound.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Basically you know who’s side people are in by the review.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Mary Trump is a wonderful storyteller, if only this was just that: a story. Unfortunately it is a true nightmare we are experiencing. This book reinforces what I already observed in our current "leader," and he may well be the most dangerous man in the world.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Hyped up. It's obvious she was the one left out at family gatherings and is EXTREMELY upset.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Dear Mary Trump,
      Thank you for your courage in writing this book. You’ve provided a deeper understanding of Donald’s often bizarre behavior. I too fear for our democracy.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This book is a captivating, enlightening, behind the scenes explanation of the destructive and deceptive sociopath who alarmingly was nominated, elected, and enabled by cabinet members and his party’s Senate to literally degrade our democratic institutions and the health of millions of citizens of our country.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Thank you for this wonderful, sad and psychologically clear account of Donald Trumps life. The world owes you a lot. Thank you for not being afraid to tell the truth

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I particularly liked that Mary Trump read the book herself. It confirmed my worst fears, that he is a sociopath who is incapable of empathy or human feeling. Everyone should read or listen to this book well before the election, especially if they think about voting for him. He's a monster who has no shame or remorse. We have to get him out of office for the safety of our people.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The book is well written and documented with substantial evidence, but it is more than that. It is written with soul and carried me into the trauma that Ms. Trump so convincingly portrays. In short, I loved the book and it gave voice to the deep psychological afflictions D.Trump so clearly displays.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      We all have political differences with our family members, not ALL of them but in my immediate family - my brother is a diehard DemocRAT & my daughter...at this point, when I look at her, I have a difficult time believing my adorable baby girl (and stalwart Social/Communist) actually grew inside and came out of, MY frikk'n BODY. Even so... as a person, I love my darling Commie daughter more than life itself. My brother? He's a big boy. I love him, but he doesn't need me...we don't talk politics over Thanksgiving dinner.

      Mary Trump, on the other hand, has taken her jealously, bitterness & political differences with her Uncle to a whole different level of ugly. Her father, Freddie, was an alcoholic, who never wanted to be part of the family business and died at a young age pretty much blamed her relationship (or lack thereof) with her grandparents on her "Uncle Donald." Up until the last chapter or so of this book (which was so [NOT] engaging, I couldn't even remember which book I was listening to) I kind of pitied her, if it's possible to pity someone who has & always had access to a chauffeur-driven limousine. This woman was raised around wealth, the likes of which I've never seen, yet she is totally ungrateful believing that because her grandfather was wealthy she was entitled to this, that and everything else.

      The last chapter was all about President Trump and what a horrible person he is now because of everything she didn't remember from her childhood. Her grandfather was horrible & because "Uncle Donald" was favored over "Saint Father Freddy," "Donald" could never do anything right in her re-enlightened eyes. You know it's nothing more than a Leftits [sic] narrative when Mary starts praising NY Gov. Cuomo's response to the CCPVirus, saying that President Trump was unable to do anything (but he hoarded ventilator's & PPE thus denying Blue Gov.'s the equipment they needed to save lives), basically...no, literally, calling Donald a murderer for his inaction to the CCPVirus. I asked myself throughout this babbling listen, "what planet does this woman live on?" Unless you can listen for free, I wouldn't recommend this trash to anyone. She's obviously hard-up for money, that was the entire basis right up until the end.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Total garbage. Typical uneducated biased crap. "Orange man bad" bullsh**.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      This book gives you the opportunity to go inside the Trump family circle and see why Donald is the way he is.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      A well told story of family heart break and being broken down.

      1 person found this helpful