‘An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader’ WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the PeopleAn intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful – and elusive – woman in the world.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...

The “captivating” (The New York Times), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful—and elusive—woman in the world.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, entering politics only after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And yet within fifteen years, she ha...

Quem é Angela Merkel, a mulher que nasceu na Alemanha Oriental, foi investigadora e se tornou líder do Ocidente? É isso que nos revela Kati Marton, que encontrou a resposta na genialidade política de Merkel: da sua disponibilidade para falar com os adversários à habilidade de negociar sem nunca comprometer o que é mais importante; da astúcia em nomear adversários políticos para o seu gabinete a saber aproveitar as crises para promover mudanças arrojadas.Notoriamente discreta, a Ang...

‘An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader’ WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the PeopleAn intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful – and elusive – woman in the world.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...

An engrossing look at twelve presidential marriages—from Edith and Woodrow Wilson to Laura and George W. Bush—that have profoundly affected America’s history.“Insightful.... Colorful.... A shrewd and illuminating look at the juncture where the personal and the political overlap.” —The Wall Street JournalMarton uncovers the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the ultimate power couples, showing how first ladies have used their privileged ...

On the evening of September 17, 1948, a car carrying Count Folke Bernadotte, the first United Nations–appointed mediator in the Middle East, traveled up a narrow Jerusalem street. As the car shifted gears for the climb toward the New City, an Israeli Army jeep nosed into the road, forcing Bernadotte’s car and the two following him to come to a full stop. From the jeep sprang three uniformed men clutching automatic weapons. In a moment that set the stage for a legacy of violence that has si...

In war-torn Greece, the murder of a young American reporter sent a shock through the West and set the stage for the four-decade Cold War; now with a new introduction by the authorGreece in 1948 was a country reeling from two major conflicts. The Nazi occupation and World War II had left it weakened, and the Greek Civil War—already raging for two years—had torn it apart. One of the earliest clashes of the Cold War, Greece's civil dispute pitted the American-backed ro...

La biografia definitiva de la cancellera alemanya Angela Merkel, que detalla l'impressionant ascens i la brillantor política de la dona més poderosa i esquiva del món.La Cancellera és alhora una biografia política i una història humana íntima d'una outsider total –química de formació i investigadora, filla d'un pastor protestant, criada a l'Alemanya Oriental controlada pels soviètics i dona– que es va convertir en la líder no oficial d'Occident.

“Kati Marton’s True Believer is a true story of intrigue, treachery, murder, torture, fascism, and an unshakable faith in the ideals of Communism….A fresh take on espionage activities from a critical period of history” (Washington Independent Review of Books).True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American who spied for Stalin during the 1930s and forties. Later, a pawn in Stalin’s sinister master...

Ez a gondos kutatáson alapuló életrajz, amely a kancellár legszűkebb környezetében készült interjúk és más források alapján írja le a politikus figyelemre méltó felemelkedését, egyúttal megvilágítja politikai zsenialitását is. Egyszerre lebilincselő politikai életrajz és egy, a körön kívülről érkezett szereplő személyes története. Evangélikus lelkész lányaként nőtt fel az NDK-ban, kutatófizikusként dolgozott, és csak a berlini fal leomlásakor ébredt rá arra, hogy szívesen vállalna szerepet...

An extraordinary work of history and original reporting that reveals the ways in which presidential marriages have affected the tone, character, and policies of twelve administrations, from Woodrow and Edith Wilson to George W. and Laura Bush.Each of the marriages that Kati Marton examines in this hugely appealing book offers up its own unexpected lessons about power and marriage, about the influence of presidential wives, and about the evolution of women’s roles in the twentieth c...

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