Too Much and Never Enough
How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
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* THE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER *
‘Even in the darkest of Dickens novels, no family comes across quite as mendacious, grasping and avaricious as the Trumps’ Financial Times
A REVELATORY PORTRAIT OF DONALD J. TRUMP AND THE TOXIC FAMILY THAT MADE HIM – WRITTEN BY HIS NIECE, MARY L. TRUMP
Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in New York with Donald and his four siblings. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. As a first-hand witness and a trained clinical psychologist, Mary explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who occupied the Oval Office.
Written by the only Trump willing to speak out, Too Much and Never Enough is a fascinating and unnerving analysis on one of the world’s most powerful and dysfunctional families. Mary Trump’s insight and intimate familiarity means she alone can tell the truth on what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick.
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Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and the niece of President Donald Trump, delivers a concise and damning account of her family's dysfunctions and their role in shaping her uncle's toxic blend of cruelty, incompetence, and vainglory. The fault, according to Trump, lies mainly with her grandfather, Fred Trump, a "high-functioning sociopath" whose harsh treatment of his eldest son and namesake, Freddy Trump (the author's father, who died at age 42 after years of alcohol abuse), taught Donald to bury his insecurities behind "a perpetual sneer of self-conscious superiority" and to cheat and bully his way to success on wheels greased by his father's money and political connections. Though Trump begins and ends the book with scathing assessments of Donald's presidency and offers plenty of unflattering anecdotes, he remains a somewhat distant figure throughout. The most harrowing sections deal with Freddy Trump's yearslong decline after his attempt to leave his father's real estate business failed, and the family's callous treatment of his ex-wife, children, and grandchildren after his death. Writing with the sharp eye of a perpetual outsider in her own family, Trump presents a melancholic portrait of their complicity in her uncle's worst behaviors. Readers who despair for President Trump's ability to lead the country out of its current crises will have their worst suspicions confirmed.
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Deutlich uninteressanter als erhofft
317 Seiten, die man sehr gut auch auf 180 hätte zusammen redigieren können. Wenn man die ganzen Wiederholungen und ewig langen Erklärungen raus gelassen hätte. Mit anderen Worten: ein guter Lektor hätte dem Buch sehr gut getan.
Natürlich ist es ein interessanter Aspekt, die Persönlichkeit Donald Trumps aus seiner Familie heraus zu erklären. Aber reicht die Erklärung, der Übervater Fred sei an allem Schuld, wirklich aus?
Beim Lesen ist man schnell an dem Punkt, dass man sich fragt, warum Mary Trump bestimmte Fragen nicht gestellt hat oder bestimmte Linien und Schlussfolgerungen nicht weiterverfolgt hat. Zum Beispiel die vielleicht sehr viel spannendere Frage, warum es so viele Unterstützer der Trump’schen Fehler und Wahnsinnstaten gibt. Oder warum eine Partei zulässt, dass sie und eine ganze Regierung in ein mafiöses System zur Zerstörung der Amerikanischen Demokratie verwandelt werden. Oder, wie sich Donalds Charakter und Wesen in seinen Kindern widerspiegeln. Dass er, dass seine gesamte Mischposche widerlich und unerträglich sind, ist ja nicht neu.
Deswegen bleibt das Buch zu sehr an der Oberfläche. Es wird niemanden zum Nachdenken bringen, es wird die Rezeption Donald Trumps nicht verändern.