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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