The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

By Kati Marton

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Politics & Social Sciences

Journalist Kati Marton's 2021 biography follows Angela Merkel from her upbringing as a pastor's daughter in communist East Germany and her training in quantum chemistry to her sixteen years as chancellor of a unified Germany. Marton spoke with Merkel's friends, colleagues and advisers. She traces how Merkel steered Germany through the financial crisis, the euro debt crisis, the refugee crisis of 2015 and confrontations with Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.

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