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Too Much and Never Enough
- How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
- Narrated by: Mary L. Trump PhD
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Editorial reviews
Behind Donald Trump’s bombast, bad haircut, and blatant disregard for the conventions of business, politics, and personal behaviour lies a deeply troubled man. Too Much and Never Enough is a riveting memoir by Mary Trump, his niece and a psychologist, which provides an inside account of the bizarre family dynamics that shaped the man.
Too Much and Never Enough highlights how the sins of Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump, caused lasting emotional damage to the former president. Author Mary Trump reveals details about Donald’s dodgy financial dealings, his compulsion to lie and cheat his way to wealth and power, and his total lack of regret or regard for anyone else.
As you would expect from a trained psychologist, Mary Trump delivers a clinical, comprehensive account of her uncle’s personality disorders. She makes for a convincing and believable narrator as she bears witness to the historical and familial forces that built the Trump persona, while doing her best to tear down his façade.
The author’s intimate knowledge of family secrets and her gift for storytelling make for a revealing portrait of the 45th President of the United States. While some might have expected a self-serving, righteous tone, Mary Trump narrates her own audiobook with a hint of dark humour and detached cool. There’s also a sense of regret for her family’s role in creating such a divisive figure.
Although the Trump family tried to stop its publication, Too Much and Never Enough was released in July 2020 and sold more than 1.3 million copies in the first week. The follow-up, The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal, analyses the impact of Trump’s presidency on the American people, economy and political system.
Publisher's Summary
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 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 first-hand witness, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humour 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 favourite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s.
Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists and journalists have sought to explain Donald Trump’s lethal flaws. Mary 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.
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- Kiwi downunder
- 16-07-2020
genuine and sincere, like no Trump you have seen
Marys book paints an interesting portrait of a dysfunctional family ruled by sociopaths. Reading this book will help you comprehend the actions of the first family.
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- TC
- 19-07-2020
Very detailed and credible insights
Mary Trump does an incredible job of explaining how Donald's deep personality flaws are a result of his father and family's culture, without extricating him from ultimate responsibility. Very engaging and entertaining book
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- Kitty
- 20-07-2020
Mary L. TRUMP
Listened to this in one sitting. In a way, it’s not at all a surprise that 45 came from an emotionally and morally bankrupt family, with a psychotic patriarch, and ruthless siblings.
A fascinating insight from a true insider…
I could’ve listened to it, if it were twice as long!
Thankyou Mary. I hope your demons are now sleeping … (or soon start healing after November 2020). You should be able to claim PTSD on your health insurance - (or bill 45; however it works over in US!)
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- Yasmine :)
- 02-07-2022
Fascinating
Such an insightful book. I didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I did. It was well written and really engaging.
Gives one a lot to think about and how important a positive upbringing is.
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- nick
- 14-08-2022
Orange Privilege
I had heard some excerpts from this book from Mueller She Wrote podcast and have watched many documentaries on this horrible man and his father. Listening to Mary detail the family dynamic and how her Grandfather was a cold manipulative person still doesn’t excuse the way Donald became. He is an adult and could seek help, or just not be a narcissistic arsehole. However he chose to to be a transactional
Prick that cared for no-one but himself. He had his father and lawyers dig him out of every failure which meant he has no sense of how to be better. How the hell does someone like that become President? He was less qualified than a pumpkin and equally orange. If the January 6 investigation and the FBI probe and his Tax violations don’t bring him undone, there is no justice. I hope you get the money you deserve for him screwing you and your brother over Mary. Good luck.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-08-2020
Frightening
How scared should we be that this man is the leader of the free world! Such a sad story!
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- Claire Bilos
- 19-07-2020
Shatters the facade.
Excellent writing. Gives an unenviable perspective to a damaged and damaging family, whose dysfunction brings about consequences beyond what the world was willing to imagine.
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- Carol-Anne Howlett
- 22-07-2020
Learning to Survive
If you have ever wondered how a man such as Donald Trump was created, this explains it all. An incredible book. Read by the author, it is very well written and easy to listen to, this narrative is about survival of the fittest.
Mary showed only slight bitterness when discussing her father and I don’t blame her one bit. How her family treated her father was hard to listen to. Her tale shows us how sociopaths are made not born. This is well worth a read, I strongly recommend it.
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- Jules
- 26-07-2020
ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT. A MUST Read!!
Couldn't get enough..
Will listen to it again and again..
Can't wait for a MOVIE to be made about it.
Mary should be so proud of herself, this book is spectacular.
(I don't understand how no one has brought up the mash potato incident in the media yet. Now Donald wouldn't like that, would he? lol.)
And with all this AGAIN it makes me thankful to Be An Australian.
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- Chris Williams
- 12-08-2020
The Best Trump Book
I've listened to them all trying to figure him out. This one provides a much better insight that all the others have and gives some terrific anecdotes that can only come from a family member.
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