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Golden Handcuffs
- The Secret History of Trump's Women
- Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Politics & Activism
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New York Times best-selling author and award-winning journalist Nina Burleigh explores “the stark details of the forces that shaped [Donald] Trump’s thinking about women” (The New York Times) in this comprehensive, provocative, and critical account of the six women who have been closest to Trump.
Has any president in the history of the United States had a more fraught relationship with women than Donald Trump? He flagrantly cheated on all three of his wives, brushed off multiple accusations of sexual assault, publicly ogled his eldest daughter, bought the silence of a porn star and a Playmate, and proclaimed his now-infamous seduction technique: “Grab ’em by the pussy.”
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Provocative, plausible, imperfect analysis
Narration: clear, engaging timbre, comfortably paced, with appropriately inflected speech.
Content and story: some of the content is doubtful (e.g., complimentary descriptions of Trump’s mother’s mannerisms and supposedly attentive behavior seriously at variance with other accounts written by journalists and historians more knowledgeable of Trump’s FOG).
Uncompromising analysis of trophy wives and uncompromising acquiescence of misogyny in exchange for extreme wealth is believable, pathetic, and allows why filthy rich men are so horribly chauvinistic.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Pam
- 12-29-19
Good read but....
You should read other books about his family and compare. It's an ok read just not sure about some facts. Keep an open mind and remember it is possible some things are not quite right.
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- Jay Fifield
- 10-28-19
Typical journalistic arrogance & condescension ...
Predictably, a radically liberal author attributing the Trump presidency to an “uneducated” and “irrational” citizenry as opposed to a conscientious repudiation of the political class by the electorate. What must it be like to feel so intellectually superior to so many?
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-25-21
Very well written about Trump
Very well written book about Donald Trump's womanizing & cheating on all of his three wives.
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- BK
- 08-27-19
Wrong reader!
This is not a novel written atmospherically!
You should re-record this with a man. Sorry to be sexist. But the book is information not pensive discovery. Nothing wrong with the reader. But annoying for this material
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