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"The definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the remarkable rise and political brilliance of the most powerful--and elusive--woman in the world. The Chancellor is at once a riveting political biography and an intimate human story of a complete outsider--a research chemist... Full description
- Prologue: The Pastor's Daughter
- 1. Against the Tide
- 2. Leipzig: On Her Own
- 3. Berlin
- 4. 1989
- 5. The Apprentice
- 6. To the Chancellery at Last
- 7. Her First American President
- 8. Dictators
- 9. The Private Chancellor
- 10. Limited Partners
- 11. Europe is Speaking German Now
- 12. The War in Ukraine: "Get me Angela on the Phone"
- 13. The Summer of Reem
- 14. The Worst of Times
- 15. Enter Trump
- 16. "Something Has Changed in Our Country..."
- 17. A Partner at Last?
- 18. Toward the End.