The author gives credit to Trump's grandmother for her business acumen despite Donald's efforts to erase that legacy from official family histories. Regarding Trump's grandmother and mother, both deceased, Burleigh summarizes their influences on Donald as hygienic (hence his germophobia) attempts at instilling propriety and-in his mother's case especially-a drive for a royal lifestyle. The author acknowledges that her opinions about Trump "leak through" on some pages, but she offers no apologies for what many readers are likely to find refreshingly straightforward language.
Rather, when the evidence warrants it, she labels Trump a liar, manipulator, cheater, and misogynist. Burleigh rarely employs neutral language or on-one-hand/on-the-other accounts. Combining shoe-leather reporting in Europe as well as the United States, official documents, secondary sources, and informed speculation, the author provides separate chapters on each of the six women: Trump's grandmother, an immigrant from Germany his mother, an immigrant from Scotland his two immigrant wives, from Czechoslovakia (Ivana) and Slovenia (Melania), and his American-born wife, Marla Maples and his eldest daughter, Ivanka. Some of the results of Burleigh's ( The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox, 2011, etc.) extensive research have been revealed previously in Newsweek, where she is the national politics correspondent. "Ī veteran reporter offers an in-depth investigative report on the six most important women in Donald Trump's life and then branches out to explain how a few dozen other women have affected his path to the presidency. " A comprehensive expose that will engender strong reactions. (She describes a postbreakup Marla "appearing in public shorn, in flat shoes, without makeup, like Joan of Arc heading for the pyre.") Burleigh's amateur psychoanalysis and insinuations that these women have sold their souls to become Trumpian "brand extensions" can seem facile, but her account of life in Trump's gilded cage is entertaining and evocative. Burleigh's narrative is dishy fun, replete with fashion and decor, fights, sex scandals, Trump's incomparable boorishness (whether he's publicly upbraiding a wife or bragging about his daughter's sexual allure), and wry, catty prose. Newsweek writer Burleigh focuses on six women of "Trumplandia" and their relationships with the billionaire: his grandmother Elisabeth, from whom Burleigh speculates he got germ phobias and racism his mother, Mary, who bequeathed him her tacky, extravagant tastes first wife Ivana, whom he divorced for evolving from glamorous trophy wife to hard-headed businesswoman second wife Marla, who bridled at the glamorous trophy wife image current wife Melania, content as a glamorous trophy wife but, Burleigh suggests, humiliated and morose over Trump's womanizing and her awkward first lady role and daughter Ivanka, who gives a classy, insincere polish to Trump's callous politics. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: President Trump's wives and daughters languish-and, occasionally, thrive-in luxurious bondage to his ego, according to this gossipy group portrait. Now comes New York University historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat with a convincing, scary, and very readable book making the case for Trump as not Hitler exactly, but as an American of the same ilk, a member of a small group of malignant men (and they are all men-that's part of the point) that, in addition to Hitler, includes Italy's Benito Mussolini and Silvio Berlusconi, Congo's Mobutu Sese Seko, Libya's Muammar Qaddafi, Chile's Augusto Pinochet, Russia's Vladimir Putin, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Hungary's Viktor Orbán-and now Trump But, critical as it is of the president, the mainstream media has been reluctant to go full-on Adolf when covering Trump.
They are not wrong: one can simply go back and watch his rally performances in black and white with the sound down to be reminded of 1930s Germany. And in the more than five years since Trump launched his appeal to white identity, the Trump-Hitler comparisons have only grown louder and more common, from social-media memes to op-eds. private-security goon onto Fifth Avenue to beat those who protested-people have been comparing him to Adolf Hitler. Since the day in 2015 when Donald Trump rode down the Trump Tower escalator and started blaming "Mexican rapists" for national problems-and then sent his ex-N.Y.P.D.
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