Golden Handcuffs

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Has any president in the history of the United States had a more fraught relationship with women than Donald Trump? His vulgar behavior speaks for itself: 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." How does he get away with this abhorrent behavior in the era of #MeToo and #TimesUp? And what are the roots of this profound misogyny? In Golden Handcuffs: The Secret History of Trump's Women, Newsweek national politics correspondent Nina Burleigh combines deep investigative journalism with a feminist analysis of the man and the most significant women in his life: his German-immigrant grandmother, Elizabeth, founder of the Trump Organization; his Scottish-immigrant mother, Mary, who acquired a taste for wealth as a maid in the Andrew Carnegie mansion; his wives - Ivana, Marla, and Melania (the first and third of whom are immigrants); and his eldest daughter, Ivanka, groomed to take over the Trump brand from a young age. Burleigh also examines the other women in Trump's orbit - his two older sisters, one of whom is a prominent federal judge; his often-overlooked younger daughter, Tiffany; his female employees; and those he calls "liars" - the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. Golden Handcuffs is a comprehensive and provocative exploration of how Trump's upbringing by his mother and grandmother informed his relationships with his wives and daughters, which in turn have shaped his attitudes toward women in general . The Trump women "now preside over the court of an end-times American Camelot on acid," Burleigh writes, "wielding enormous power over stylists and foreign dignitaries in exchange for surviving the ultimate reality-show challenge: meeting Donald Trump's exacting and archaic standards of what it takes for a woman to impress oligarchs and captains of supranational corporations." -- From dust jacket