Mr. Book just finished Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created The World’s Most Dangerous Man, by Mary Trump.

This is an excellent book by Mary Trump, Donald’s niece. She is a trained licensed psychologist, so she is able to bring both her professional expertise as well as her personal knowledge about him to the subject.

But, despite that fact, that is not a psychological analysis of him, but rather an excellent collection of stories and insight into her uncle.

One of my favorite stories is her telling about how she would always lose at Monopoly during the weekly family games and they even kept a running total of all of the thousands of dollars in debt that she would run up every game. The best part of the story was when she wrote “It was a great joke between me and my friends that I, the granddaughter and niece of real estate tycoons, was terrible at real estate. It turned out that Donald and I had something in common after all.”

It’s hard to say what the best part of the book. On the one hand, her discussion of the family finances was the best in any Trump book I’ve read. On the other hand, all of the overall terribleness of not only the man but his father and the rest of the family was also too good to not entitle it best part status.

Mr. Book originally read this on July 14, 2020 and gave it an A+. Under the rules of the Book Hall of Fame, any A+ given prior to 2023 is only considered a presumptive inductee and has to be reread in order to gain induction. The rereading, as well as the listening of the audiobook, affirms its A+ status and its membership into the Hall of Fame. Goodreads requires grades on a 1-5 star system. In my personal conversion system, an A+ equates to 5 stars. (A or A+: 5 stars, B+: 4 stars, B: 3 stars, C: 2 stars, D or F: 1 star).

This review has been posted at my blog, Mr. Book’s Book Reviews, and Goodreads.

Mr. Book finished reading rereading this on August 15, 2024.