Chancellor: the remarkable odyssey of Angela Merkel
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- 943.0883092 MAR
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943.0877 BRA People and Politics | 943.0883092 KOR Angela merkel: the chancellor and her world | 943.0883092 KOR Angela merkel: the chancellor and her world | 943.0883092 MAR Chancellor: the remarkable odyssey of Angela Merkel | 943.0901 GER German scholors on India | 943.1087 CUL Cultural life in the federal republic of Germany | 943.155 BER Berlin |
Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she spent her twenties working as a research chemist, only entering politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And yet within fifteen years, she had become chancellor of Germany and, before long, the unofficial leader of the West.
Acclaimed author Kati Marton sets out to pierce the mystery of this unlikely ascent. With unparalleled access to the chancellor’s inner circle and a trove of records only recently come to light, she teases out the unique political genius that is the secret to Merkel’s success. No other modern leader has so ably confronted authoritarian aggression, enacted daring social policies and calmly unified an entire continent in an era when countries are becoming only more divided. Again and again, she’s cleverly outmanoeuvred strongmen like Putin and Trump, and weathered surprisingly complicated relationships with allies like Obama and Macron.
Famously private, the woman who emerges from these pages is a role model for anyone interested in gaining and keeping power while staying true to one’s moral convictions. At once a riveting political biography, an intimate human portrait and a revelatory look at successful leadership in action, The Chancellor brings forth from the shadows one of the most extraordinary women of our time.
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