The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

by Kati Marton

Book Overview

The Chancellor is at once a riveting political biography and an intimate human story of a complete outsider--a research chemist and pastor's daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany--who rose to become the unofficial leader of the West. Acclaimed biographer Kati Marton set out to pierce the mystery of how Angela Merkel achieved all this. And she found the answer in Merkel's political genius: in her willingness to talk with adversaries rather...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501192620
• ISBN13: 9781501192623
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"