Summary

Born in West Germany but raised in East Germany, Angela Merkel has known both repression and freedom. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Merkel started her meteoric rise to become Germany's first female chancellor and one of the world’s most powerful women. A scientist by training, Merkel possesses analytical skills seldom seen in a world leader, and she confronts not only German problems but European and world issues with diplomacy and tact. Enhanced by a chronology, bibliography, and suggestions for further reading, this full-color biography is the inspiring account of an intriguing leader who's a tireless force for progress.

Specifications

Full-color and black-and-white photographs. Chronology. Bibliography. Further reading. Index.

About the Author(s)

Clifford W. Mills is a writer and editor living in Jacksonville, Florida. He has written biographies of Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Pope Benedict XVI, and Virginia Woolf. He has also compiled a volume of essays about J.D. Salinger, and has been an editor for John Wiley and Sons and Oxford University Press. He currently teaches at Columbia College.

Introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities, City University of New York; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History and for Biography