The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal
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The instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller
America is suffering from PTSD—The Reckoning diagnoses its core causes and helps us begin the healing process.
For four years, Donald J. Trump inflicted an onslaught of overlapping and interconnected traumas upon the American people, targeting anyone he perceived as being an "other" or 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. In short, he transformed our country into a macro version of his malignantly dysfunctional family.
How can we make sense of the degree to which our institutions and leaders have let us down? How can we negotiate a world in which all sense of safety and justice seems to have been destroyed? How can we—as individuals and as a nation—confront, process, and overcome this loss of trust and the ways we have been forever altered by chaos, division, and cruelty? And when the dust finally settles, how can we begin to heal, in the midst of ongoing health and economic crises and the greatest political divide since the Civil War?
Mary L. Trump is uniquely positioned to answer these difficult questions. She holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology specializing in trauma, has herself been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, and happens to be Donald J. Trump's only niece. In The Reckoning, she applies her unique expertise to the task of helping us confront an all-encompassing trauma, one that has taken an immense toll on our nation's health and well-being.
A new leader alone cannot fix us. Donald J. Trump is only the latest symptom of a disease that has existed within the body politic since America's inception—from the original sin of slavery through our unceasing, organized commitment to inequality. Our failure to acknowledge this, let alone root it out, has allowed it to metastasize. Now, we are confronted with the limits of our own agency on a daily basis. Whether it manifests itself in rising levels of rage and hatred, or hopelessness and apathy, the unspeakable stress of living in a country we no longer recognize has affected all of us for a long time, in ways we may not fully understand. An enormous amount of healing must be done to rebuild our lives, our faith in leadership, and our hope for this nation. It starts with The Reckoning.
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Mary L. Trump. (2021). The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal. St. Martin's Publishing Group.
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The instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller
America is suffering from PTSD—The Reckoning diagnoses its core causes and helps us begin the healing process.
For four years, Donald J. Trump inflicted an onslaught of overlapping and interconnected traumas upon the American people, targeting anyone he perceived as being an "other" or 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. In short, he transformed our country into a macro version of his malignantly dysfunctional family.
How can we make sense of the degree to which our institutions and leaders have let us down? How can we negotiate a world in which all sense of safety and justice seems to have been destroyed? How can we—as individuals and as a nation—confront, process, and overcome this loss of trust and the ways we have been forever altered by chaos, division, and cruelty? And when the dust finally settles, how can we begin to heal, in the midst of ongoing health and economic crises and the greatest political divide since the Civil War?
Mary L. Trump is uniquely positioned to answer these difficult questions. She holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology specializing in trauma, has herself been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, and happens to be Donald J. Trump's only niece. In The Reckoning, she applies her unique expertise to the task of helping us confront an all-encompassing trauma, one that has taken an immense toll on our nation's health and well-being.
A new leader alone cannot fix us. Donald J. Trump is only the latest symptom of a disease that has existed within the body politic since America's inception—from the original sin of slavery through our unceasing, organized commitment to inequality. Our failure to acknowledge this, let alone root it out, has allowed it to metastasize. Now, we are confronted with the limits of our own agency on a daily basis. Whether it manifests itself in rising levels of rage and hatred, or hopelessness and apathy, the unspeakable stress of living in a country we no longer recognize has affected all of us for a long time, in ways we may not fully understand. An enormous amount of healing must be done to rebuild our lives, our faith in leadership, and our hope for this nation. It starts with The Reckoning.- reviews
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"Trump has plenty of acid left to spray on the last presidential administration's years, but that's not this book's primary focus. White privilege and the dismantling of racism is, and that comes as some surprise, in both the history Trump uses to make her points and in the obvious passion in her arguments...An absolute eye-opener."
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- content: "In The Reckoning, it's not her own personal trauma Mary Trump is unpacking, but the entire country's – trauma, she says, we need to sort through if democracy is to survive."
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- source: The Guardian
- content: "Mesmerizing beach reading and a memorable opposition research dump...salacious, venomous and well-sourced."
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- content: "A delicious tell-all that does in fact tell all in a way one longs for a tell-all to do."
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- content: "Dripping with snideness, vibrating with rage, and gleaming with clarity--a deeply satisfying read."
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- content: "Mary Trump's compelling saga of one very unhappy family does more than just provide probing insights into her uncle's disturbing inner world. It's also a first-rate primer on the chaotic inner workings of an administration that has shocked the world."
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The former president's niece gets in a few more licks. There is no love lost between Trump and her uncle: "But for him, we would not have become so divided. But for him, a simple lifesaving maneuver like wearing a mask would not have become politicized. But for him, we would not have suffered a mass casualty event in this country every day, for month after month after month." She reckons that under her uncle's watch, the nation was forced to endure so catastrophic a trauma that, in essence, we're all suffering from PTSD. That trauma is an old one, she writes, and here the narrative descends from political and psychological analysis to the recitation of a history that is well known: Our trauma and many of our divisions emerge from the original sin of slavery and the failure of Reconstruction. Because we have not come to terms with that sin, and because racism is resurgent, we have no chance to remedy it. Trump's approach is a touch scattershot. She has a particular bone to pick with Robert E. Lee, whom she calls "a vile human being," and even lays a few tut-tuts on Barack Obama for "failing to hold prior crimes to account," from Abu Ghraib to the fast-and-loose financial shenanigans that led to the Great Recession. She's at her best, and on the firmest of ground, when she lays into her uncle's manifest shortcomings: "When your motive is not simply winning at all costs but grievance and revenge, you're more dangerous than a straight-up sociopath. Donald is much worse than that--he's someone with a gaping wound where his soul should be." What's more, she insists, with good reason, the Republican Party has followed his lead as "an instinctive fascist" to become an enemy of American democracy, yet another source of our mass trauma--our rescue from which will come only with our "facing the truth and feeling the pain." Of value to those pondering what happened for the past five years and whether we can truly heal.
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