All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way

by Fred C. Trump III

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Battling the complexities brought on by a complicated family legacy, Fred Trump turns to the page for this tell-all on his family, his upbringing and his last name.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this honest memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family name.

For the record...Fred Trump never asked for any of this. The divisive politics. The endless headlines. A hijacked last name. The heat-seeking uncle, rising from real estate scion to gossip column fixture to The Apprentice host to President of the United States. Fred just wanted a happy life and a satisfying career. But a fight for his son’s health and safety forced him onto a center stage that he had never wanted. And now, at a crucial point for our nation, he is stepping forward again.

In All in the Family, Fred delves into his journey to become a “different kind of Trump,” detailing his passionate battle to protect his wife and children from forces inside and outside the family. From the Trump house to the White House, Fred comes to terms with his own complex legacy and faces some demons head-on. It’s a story of power, love, money, cruelty, and the unshakable bonds of family, played out underneath a glaring media spotlight.

All in the Family is the inside story, as it’s never been told before.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781668072172
Publisher:	Gallery Books
Publication date:	07/30/2024
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	3,923
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Fred C. Trump III is the grandson of Fred Trump, the patriarch of the Trump family real-estate empire. He is also the nephew of Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States. Fred and his wife, Lisa, are passionate supporters for the community of the intellectually and developmentally disabled. Their family lives in Connecticut and New York.

Editorial Reviews

09/02/2024

In this somber debut memoir, Trump, the nephew of former president and current Republican nominee Donald Trump, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Trump family tree—and the cold machinations that left him and his sister Mary, author of Too Much and Never Enough, largely disinherited. Trump’s story is a far cry from the narrative often put forward by his famous uncle; the book is packed with juicy details of the family’s dysfunction, including the almost casual cruelty of his grandfather, and the struggles of his father, Fred Jr., who spurned the family business to become a pilot and succumbed to alcoholism at age 42. The most intense chapters deal with a financially floundering Donald Trump’s heartless scheme to cheat Trump and his sister out their father’s inheritance, sparking a brutal legal battle that saw the family cut off Trump’s health insurance shortly after the arrival of his third son, William, who was born with special needs and required significant (and expensive) medical care. Trump remains admirably forbearing, resisting insults and attacks, instead letting actions speak loudest in his workmanlike prose. It’s a vivid account of a famous family’s dynastic power plays and the collateral damage left in their wake. (July)

Publishers Weekly

"A well paced and engrossing read."

The Guardian

Fred C. Trump III cast[s] aside decades of silence to delve into the roots of the Trump family’s dysfunction at a critical moment in American political history...juicily entertaining...a dishy portrait."

Washington Post

A disturbing number of the stories in “All in the Family” show the former president as much more than obnoxious. He causes, countenances, orders and savors the physical pain of others.

Los Angeles Times - Virginia Heffernan

2024-07-30
Another Trump unburdens himself.

Grandson of the family’s founder and nephew of the current Republican presidential candidate, Fred C. Trump III doesn’t share MAGA politics but claims to be on good terms with his uncle. He attended the 2017 inauguration, visited the White House several times, and is invited to many, if not all, Trump family affairs. He maintains, not always successfully, that this is an overview of his family and life independent of his “polarizing" uncle. Donald is a major supporting character throughout, but this is also a believable memoir of Fred, now 61, who has managed a successful career outside the Trump organization but remains a member in fairly good standing of the toxic clan. He grew up in an already vast real estate empire ruled by his tyrannical grandfather who left behind four living children, including the president-to-be, who was already taking charge. A fifth sibling, the author’s alcoholic father, who hated working for the grandfather, died in 1981. Except for being rich, Fred’s early life was unremarkable. His accounts of other family members reveal a mixed bag, and the future president is recognizable even from childhood as self-centered and brash. Never part of the inner circle, the author does not delve deeply into Trump business details but regularly digresses to describe his uncle’s behavior—generally cruel, malicious, and even racist but occasionally, unpredictably generous. But this is, in the end, the author’s story, and while readers might gnash their teeth at Donald Trump’s often cartoonish villainy—such as snatching more of his father’s estate by disinheriting Fred and his sister—they will feel for the author’s devastation at the birth of a severely impaired child and understand why the cause of caring for such children preoccupies him today.

More thoughtful than most of the Trump genre, but definitely not intended for the fan base.

Kirkus Reviews