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For four years, Donald J. Trump inflicted an onslaught of overlapping and interconnected traumas
upon the American people, targeting anyone he perceived as being an "other" or an enemy. Women
were discounted and derided, the sick were dismissed as weak and unworthy of help, immigrants and
minorities were demonized and discriminated against, and money was elevated above all else. In
short, he transformed our country into a macro version of his malignantly dysfunctional family.

How can we make sense of the degree to which our institutions and leaders have let us down? How
can we negotiate a world in which all sense of safety and justice seems to have been destroyed? How
can we-as individuals and as a nation-confront, process, and overcome this loss of trust and the
ways we have been forever altered by chaos, division, and cruelty? And when the dust finally settles,
how can we begin to heal, in the midst of ongoing health and economic crises and the greatest
political divide since the Civil War?

Mary L. Trump is uniquely positioned to answer these difficult questions. She holds a Ph.D. in
clinical psychology specializing in trauma, has herself been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress
disorder, and happens to be Donald J. Trump's only niece. In The Reckoning, she applies her unique
expertise to the task of helping us confront an all-encompassing trauma, one that has taken an
immense toll on our nation's health and well-being.