There are a couple Trump by Gwenda Blair has the large book on he, his father, and grandfather. And just the smaller one taken from it on him
It’s probably most researched although some of the conclusions from material gathered may be in question.
You are welcome to look through my collection of articles by searching keyword “respositorytrump”. Started saving articles (no tabloid) the day he announced. The earliest ones contain family history.
My fifth great aunt Sarah was married to a Trump so we started digging early
Also read The Last Farmer by Howard Kohn (so). It gives you an idea of the German work ethic that founded the farmers in Midwest as well as the Trump family
It was actually his grandmother who found herself a young widow with three children that started the family construction business. Wish someone would point that out. Fred (his father was the oldest at 11) when his father died. Mom sent him to trade school to learn electricity, plumbing etc while he also went to high school. She’d buy the houses, Fred fixed them up and then they’d buy more. She sent the daughter to business school to learn to keep the books. John was suppose to be the architect of the family business but he had other ideas.
Many thanks, hoosiermama. Wow you’ve got a tremendous resource. I think I’ll use that when John McCain, Don Lemon, Chuck Tood, etc. say something stupid — I can recycle some of Trump’s tweets on FR: love reading some of those tweets from our VSG POTUS!