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 crack-up, so this nation is doomed to a similar fate. Her thesis is that we are living through this precise phenomenon.
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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 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.…
This book was published by Luath Press, a Scottish publisher. Lesley Riddoch is a well known Scottish writer and broadcaster. But you don't need to be Scottish to appreciate a book about how colonial powers function. This book is not a downer, however, but is optimistic about how a small nation (all be it a very rich nation if it were allowed to conduct its own affairs) could thrive, just as the Scandinavian ones do: for the people by the people. She is imagining a Scotland free from the shackles of its over lord in Westminster, and it is full of hope, an emotion that has been denied the Scottish people since the Treaty of Union with England in 1707. Scotland is not there yet, but this book made me happy!
Why batter on about independence when folk voted No a decade back?
After all. Scotland's not as populated as Yorkshire, nor as wealthy as London. But it's also not as Conservative, as keen on Brexit, or as willing to flog public assets to Tory party pals.
So does Nicola Sturgeon's departure terminally damage the case for independence?
The answer, with all respect to her legacy, is no.
Scotland has bigger fish to fry.
In this book, Lesley Riddoch makes an impassioned call to action, weaving academic evidence with story, international comparison and anecdote to explain…
Orwell's Island is a fascinating study of the author as he lived out his last days on Jura, a remote island off the coast of Western Scotland, and the forces that came to be his inspiration for his seminal book 1984. Orwell was already suffering from the Tuberculosis that would kill him, as he immersed himself in the incredible beauty of this island backdrop. This last of Orwell's books proved to presage much of the fascistic movements in both Europe and America. With the ideas of Big Brother and Thought Police, Les Wilson brings Orwell and his island getaway into current relevance.
Revered across the globe as an author of compelling novels, journalism and essays that came to define the twentieth century, George Orwell was an unmatched political visionary, shining a light on the insidious nature of propaganda. Yet this chronicler of war, social injustices and urban poverty spent his later years living in a rustic and remote farmhouse, miles from the nearest neighbour. His rural escape was on the Hebridean island of Jura - another paradox, given that he harboured a deep-seated prejudice against Scotland for much of his life.
In 1946, Orwell arrived at his isolated home of Barnhill as…
Anyone with Scottish heritage will love this book. A burned-out Hollywood director buys a one-way ticket to Scotland, hoping to find his Brigadoon. What he discovers instead in the town of his forefathers is an array of colourful characters who bring him face to face with something far more authentic.
Kirkus Reviews has this to say about Mrs. McPhealy’s American: Linguistically charming prose -- witty and acerbic, with the hint of a lilt…this is a tale told with warmth, humor, and appreciation.
Mrs. McPhealy's American book trailer: https://youtu.be/vIWkW6DUOK0?si=byo0f97BZjHYY6ZB
