MY HOLIDAY READING: ABOUT TRUMP, BY MERKEL AND BY JACQUES FRANCK
JULY 16:
Holidays are good for many things. Also for
reading. Outside when the sun is
shining. Inside when it is raining. So,
no excuse. Just get going….
My holiday reading this year is concentrated on
several books. Some of them e-books on
my Kindle, others as real “old-fashioned” books. Both have their great advantages.
Though I some time ago decided that I no longer
wanted to waste my time on reading about and hearing about Trump and all his “trumpists”
I have decided to read the new book by his former national security advisor JOHN
BOLTON. It is called: The Room Where
it Happened. And the book fulfils my
expectations. On one hand Bolton is – unlike Trump – very knowledgeable and
hard working. But on the other hand he
is as much a political bandit as his former boss. Ego-centric and with a strong wish to break
down and spoil most of the international rules and constructions, which have
been created since the Second World War – also with active American contributions. But the book is very interesting, because it
gives a very detailed and frightening description of the chaos in and around
today’s White House ☹
You also need some entertainment, so I have just
bought the e-book version of the very new book written by Trump’s niece, MARY
TRUMP. It is called: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the
World’s Most Dangerous Man”. The
book is very interesting, not so much due to all the frightening inside
knowledge about the Trump family, but because Mary Trump is a professional
clinical psychologist and therefore able to give a solid professional
evaluation of the state of mind of the President. This is very worrying.
When I have read those books two others are
waiting: ANGELA MERKEL: Mein Weg. And the Belgian
editor and journalist JACQUES FRANCK’s memoires: La Vie est un Voyage. He
is a very interesting and pleasant man. We met him some years ago on a cruise
on the Volga in Russia.
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