Who Could Ever Love You is an intimate, heartbreaking memoir of a father, a mother, and a family-s exile.
Mary Trump grew up in a family divided by its patriarch-s relentless drive for money and power. The daughter of Freddy Trump, the highly accomplished, dashing eldest son of wealthy real estate developer Fred Trump, and Linda Clapp, a flight attendant from a working-class family, Mary lived in the shadow of Freddy-s humiliation at the hands of his father.
Fred Trump embodied the ethos of the zero-sum game and among his five children, there could only be one winner. That was supposed to be Freddy, his namesake, but Fred found him wanting-too sensitive, too kind, too interested in pursuits beyond the realm of the real estate empire he was meant to inherit. In Donald, Fred found a kindred spirit, a -killer,- who would stop at nothing to get his own way.
Even after Freddy-s short-lived career as a professional pilot for TWA came to an end, he never
