Mary Trump to release new book on ‘America’s
national trauma’
Book by president’s niece will be published in July
2021
The Reckoning follows tell-all of her dysfunctional
family
Martin
Pengelly in New York
@MartinPengelly
Tue 1 Dec
2020 16.30 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/01/mary-trump-book-the-reckoning-presidents-niece
Donald
Trump’s niece Mary Trump will follow her bestselling exposé of her
dysfunctional family life with a new book on “America’s national trauma”, her
publisher has announced.
The
Reckoning will be published by St Martin’s Press in July 2021. According to St
Martin’s, it “will examine America’s national trauma, rooted in our history but
dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump
administration’s corrupt and immoral policies”.
Mary Trump
is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr, the president’s older brother who died aged
42 in 1981, from illness relating to alcoholism. Much of Mary Trump’s first
book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most
Dangerous Man, was informed by her father’s treatment by his siblings and
parents.
The Trump
family sought to block publication but the book, published by Simon &
Schuster, became an enormous hit, selling 1.35m copies in its first week alone.
The
president’s niece, a trained psychologist, has since emerged as a prominent
critic.
“I don’t
think he has any political ideology,” she told the Guardian in July. “I would
say he behaves like a white supremacist, certainly.”
In a
statement on Tuesday, Mary Trump said: “For four years, Donald Trump has
inflicted a series of traumas upon the American people, targeting anyone he
perceived as the ‘other’ as an enemy.
“Women were
discounted and derided, the sick were dismissed as weak and unworthy of help,
immigrants and minorities were demonized and discriminated against, and money
was elevated above all else.
“Finally,
he demonstrated his stunning lack of concern for the American people with his
willful mishandling of the pandemic and the ensuing economic collapse. In
short, he transformed our country into a macro version of my malignantly
dysfunctional family.”
Trump is
currently refusing to concede defeat to Joe Biden, while making baseless claims
of electoral fraud, pursuing long-shot lawsuits and encouraging rumors that he
may run for president again in four years’ time.
Jennifer
Enderlin, St Martin’s president and publisher, said Mary Trump was “uniquely
positioned … to make sense of the consequences of our living through what could
be the greatest mental health crisis we have ever experienced as a nation.”
St Martin’s
Press said: “America is suffering from PTSD – a new leader alone cannot fix
us.”
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