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分享：Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump Ph.D.
Amazon Best Sellers of 2020 in Books #1，定格日期：2020年11月1日。
Mary Trump has a Master’s degree in English literature from Columbia, and a PhD in clinical psychology from Adelphi University. Throughout the book, along with her clear narration of fact, she gives her own coherent and very plausible analysis of Donald Trump’s psychological makeup and his deficiencies. As told by an educated and professionally qualified insider, albeit with her own axe to grind, this account offers the reader a perspective on the President that cannot be obtained elsewhere.
After a telling and wryly entertaining opening chapter, Mary Trump recounts the failed efforts of her own father, Fred Jr. to meet the expectations of his father, and her father’s descent into a life of alcoholism and failure.
Thereafter, however, her focus shifts to Donald, and we learn much about his early days, stealing toys from his younger brother Robert (just deceased), winning awards for neatness at the military academy where he was sent for discipline, and then, as Donald rises to take the role Fred had originally intended for Mary’s father, we learn the extent to which Fred Trump underwrote and organized Donald’s early successes: the Grand Hyatt and Trump Tower. Of course, Donald has always claimed that he is a self-made man, that all of his early successes were attributable to his own skill and planning; Mary is convincing, however, that this is rubbish, and that he was only successful when his father was actually running the show from behind the scenes.
Mary’s account is as much about Trump’s father, Fred Trump, as about Trump himself. But this is important information, for the background lets us understand core aspects of who Donald really is. In her sober, intelligent, non-gossipy account, we learn about the values of Fred Trump and his wife, Fred’s expectations for his children, and the punishments meted out to children who did not meet them.
For anyone concerned about the psychological make-up and the background of Donald Trump, It is not great literature, it does not advance a bold new paradigm, but it is a useful, instructive, and often entertaining, inside account of a very important person in our lives today.
