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The instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller

America is suffering from PTSD―The Reckoning diagnoses its core causes and helps us begin the healing process.

For four years, Donald J. Trump inflicted an onslaught of overlapping and interconnected traumas upon the American people, targeting anyone he perceived as being…

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1 author picked The Reckoning as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is the second book by Mary Trump. I really appreciate her voice in a time of political chaos. Obviously, she grew up in the Trump family and gives us an inside look as to what that was like, but she is also a psychologist, and this book takes us one step further to ask the question: how did America get to this place? Her answer is that the nation has never properly acknowledged the conditions that gave birth to America: slavery and genocide. Just like a person who cannot acknowledge trauma from their past is heading for a psychological…

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