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Mary Trump: My Grandfather Was A Sociopath

Mary Trump: My Grandfather Was A Sociopath

FromAll Ears with Abigail Disney


Mary Trump: My Grandfather Was A Sociopath

FromAll Ears with Abigail Disney

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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Aug 6, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week All Ears brings you a special bonus episode: Abby couldn’t pass up the opportunity to talk to author Mary Trump about her new book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created The World’s Most Dangerous Man”. As like-minded mavericks, Abby and Mary discuss what it’s like to stand up to a wealthy American family empire from the inside, and the friction and drama that results. Mary brings a gimlet eye to the Trump family mythology, and deconstructs the brutal dynamics that destroyed her father, Fred Trump Jr. (Donald Trump’s elder brother). As Mary relates in vivid detail, the Trump family patriarch, Fred Sr., pitted the five Trump siblings against each other, and Donald emerged as the ruthless victor by emulating Fred Sr.’s narcissism and sociopathy, while Fred Jr. died at 42 from complications of alcoholism, broken by years of emotional abuse at the hands of his father. This is an interview you won’t want to miss! EPISODE LINKSToo Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (Mary Trump)The Inside Story of Why Mary Trump Wrote a Tell-All Memoir (New York Times)Mary Trump's interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos (ABC News)The Men Who Gave Trump His Brutal Worldview (Politico)Mary Trump on Twitter: @MaryLTrump
Released:
Aug 6, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (53)

Abigail has a new documentary, The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales, in which she examines the inequality crisis through the lens of the company her grandfather helped found, The Walt Disney Company. In the film, she asks how it is possible that so many workers at Disneyland, aka “the happiest place on earth,” can’t afford life's basic necessities, even when they work full time. For the fourth season of All Ears, Abigail poses that question to people who are doing the most Disney thing of all–using their imaginations–in this case to rethink capitalism. She talks with business leaders, union organizers, and economists to learn how they would fix our broken economy.