The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal
Written by Mary L. Trump
Narrated by Mary L. Trump
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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.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press
Mary L. Trump
Mary L. Trump holds a PhD from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies and taught graduate courses in trauma, psychopathology, and developmental psychology. She lives with her daughter in New York.
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Reviews for The Reckoning
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mary's voice is not only a very important voice on the subject of her relatives, but she is incredibly intelligent (clearly she got the brains), open to the changes that white America needs to make today, and someone I need to hear alot more from. This book lays out a very clear picture of who she is and what she stands for. Podcast maybe?
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Took lots of courage to put this out there. Good read. Lots of truth.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A MUST read for every American.
Thank you Mary for your courage to tell the hard truths about your personal and our "patriotic" lives.1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is an incisive, powerful, deeply reasoned and deeply felt presentation of uncomfortable truths we Americans must confront in order to begin the work of healing ourselves, our nation and our world. Bravo Mary Trump!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mary L Trump has done her homework as well as shared her experience in the Reckoning. She tells it as it is, and for that I found this audiobook with her narrating it refreshing and confirming. Thank you Mary
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book surprised me with phenomenal history. An unspoken truth of our country. Thank you Mary.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent book! Great beginner book on critical race theory. Read it!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5We’ll researched and written. The reality for me is the truth hurts!