Prologue -- The cruelty is the point. The house ; The first son ; The great I-am ; Expecting to fly -- The wrong side of the tracks. Grounded ; A zero-sum game ; Parallel lines ; Escape velocity -- Smoke and mirrors. The art of the bailout ; Nightfall does not come at once ; The only currency ; The debacle -- The worst investment ever made. The political is personal ; A civil servant in public housing -- Epilogue: The tenth circle.
Summary:
Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents' 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. As a trained clinical psychologist, 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. -- adapted from jacket
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