On Wednesday, a New York Appeals Court officially cleared the way for Simon & Schuster to distribute Mary Trump's memoir, Too Much and Never Enough, set to come out July 28th. The day prior, a judge had ruled to block the memoir because of an NDA Mary Trump signed in 1999 agreeing never to write about the family without their explicit permission.
The book is a revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the family that made him. Mary Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man he is.
Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents' large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald.
A firsthand witness to countless holiday meals and interactions, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humor to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything.
Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists, and journalists have sought to parse Donald J. Trump's lethal flaws. Mary L. Trump has the education, insight, and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga.
The appeals ruling "restrained Mary Trump and any agent of hers from distributing the book, but the court made clear it did not consider the publisher to be an agent, though that issue could be decided in further proceedings at the lower court." Simon & Schuster has confirmed that much of the 75,000-first print run has already been sent to bookstores and distribution centers.
Simon & Schuster calls Too Much and Never Enough of “great interest and importance to the national discourse that fully deserves to be published for the benefit of the American public."
