Summary
In 2015 Time magazine named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its Person of the Year, leaving little doubt that the woman who has held control of the European Union and successfully negotiated with Russian President Vladimir Putin is one of the most crucial and formidable fixtures in contemporary p... Full description
- A childhood under communism
- In the shadow of the Berlin Wall
- Angela in Leipzig
- The unbearable boredom of being: a squatter in Berlin
- Angela becomes Merkel
- Kohl's girl
- the politics of patricide: how Merkel became party leader
- Waiting game: the patient party leader
- Merkel loses and becomes chancellor
- The making of the Queen of Europe
- Potato soup, the Pope and re-election
- The Euro-crisis and Afghanistan
- From the jaws of defeat and beyond
- Ukraine, another Greek tragedy and the refugee crisis
- Epilogue: Mother Courage or Merkiavelli?