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Who Could Ever Love You
- A Family Memoir
- Narrated by: Mary L. Trump PhD
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Publisher's Summary
This program is read by the author.
Who Could Ever Love You is an intimate, heartbreaking memoir of a father, a mother, and a family’s exile.
Mary Trump grew up in a family divided by its patriarch’s relentless drive for money and power. The daughter of Freddy Trump, the highly accomplished, dashing eldest son of wealthy real estate developer Fred Trump, and Linda Clapp, a flight attendant from a working-class family, Mary lived in the shadow of Freddy’s humiliation at the hands of his father.
Fred Trump embodied the ethos of the zero-sum game and among his five children, there could only be one winner. That was supposed to be Freddy, his namesake, but Fred found him wanting—too sensitive, too kind, too interested in pursuits beyond the realm of the real estate empire he was meant to inherit. In Donald, Fred found a kindred spirit, a “killer,” who would stop at nothing to get his own way.
Even after Freddy’s short-lived career as a professional pilot for TWA came to an end, he never stopped trying to gain his father’s approval. Finally, at the age of forty-two, he succumbed to Fred’s lethal contempt and died alone in an emergency room, with no family by his side.
In WHO COULD EVER LOVE YOU, Mary Trump brings us inside the twisted family whose patriarch ignored, froze out, and eventually destroyed his own. Freddy Trump’s decline into alcoholism and illness, along with Linda’s suffering after their divorce, left Mary dangerously vulnerable as a very young girl.
Inadequately and only conditionally loved, there were no adults in her life except for the father she loved, but lost before she could know him; and a mother abandoned by her ex-husband’s rich and powerful family who demanded her loyalty but left her with nothing.
With searching insight, poignant detail, and unsparing prose, Mary Trump reveals the cold, selfish cruelty that has come to define the Trump family thanks in large part to her uncle, whose malignant ambition has riven our nation and threatens the world.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.
Critic Reviews
“By turns lyrical and stark, Mary Trump writes with honesty, anguish, and unflinching detail about growing up in a family that made a sport of destroying its own. Who Could Ever Love You lays bare the Trump dynastic traumas and demonstrates how those traumas now hold sway over all of us. Mary Trump has written a brilliant memoir.”—Molly Jong-Fast
“This memoir is the portrait of a spark—is it love, or God, or decency?—the spark inside the rare person that can grow in the hardest ground, the sandiest soil. I honestly don’t know how someone can withstand such a thoroughly poisonous stew of a family dynamic and come out the other end such an intelligent, caring and perspicacious human being. That Mary Trump exists is nothing short of a miracle.”—Aimee Mann, Grammy Award-winning musician
"Trump’s clear and concise prose shines...an astute and occasionally explosive plunge into an American dynasty’s heart of darkness."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
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- Theresa
- 13-09-2024
Loved your book, Mary!
Real dysfunctional families detailed in all their complexity. I hope in the future family members are able to have a clearer insight into the convoluted dynamics involved in these types of situations & people like you & I & our fathers are treated better.
❤️ Love Theresa
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- Maggiestampa
- 19-09-2024
Totally absorbing. Totally real.
Every page grabbed me by my heartstrings. I felt every word, and the strength of the author shone through in every aspect of the story along with her bravery, not only in living through the events in her life, but in the fact that she could write down her story, and also share it openly.
There is so much depth to this work, that I listened to it a second time immediately after finishing it, and I will listen to it again.
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- Clarebear1979
- 14-09-2024
Traumatic Tragedy
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Mary L Trump has an accessible writing style and her willingness to narrate such a personal and powerful history is inspiring. At times it is heartbreaking to listen at others a reminiscent of simpler times.
I am encouraged by Mary’s continuance through adversity and the traumatic events that dominated her childhood. I am encouraged to persevere.
I hope this book helped to continue Mary’s journey of healing.
Her willingness to share her story with the world encourages me to continue on my own journey of healing.
Another amazing book. Thank you Mary!
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- Anonymous User
- 24-09-2024
Julie from NZ.
Very interesting. she had a hard life. I follow her on her podcast. cheers.
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