Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021 from the former Chancellor of Germany
Nov 2024 · Pan Macmillan
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'A great accomplishment . . . A wonderful reflection of an extraordinary sweep of history' – Barack Obama
For 16 years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany. She led the country through numerous crises, shaping both Germany and international politics with her actions and attitudes. In her memoirs, co-written with her long-time political advisor Beate Baumann, she reflects on her life in two German states – 35 years in the German Democratic Republic and 35 years in reunited Germany.
More intimately than ever before, she talks about her childhood, youth, and studies in the GDR and the dramatic year of 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell and her political life began. She also shares recollections and insights from her meetings and conversations with the world's most powerful people.
Discussing significant national, European, and international turning points, she shows how the decisions were made that shaped our times. Her book offers a unique insight into the inner workings of power – and is a compelling plea for freedom.
'Remarkable' – Financial Times
'Illuminating' – The New York Times Book Review
For 16 years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany. She led the country through numerous crises, shaping both Germany and international politics with her actions and attitudes. In her memoirs, co-written with her long-time political advisor Beate Baumann, she reflects on her life in two German states – 35 years in the German Democratic Republic and 35 years in reunited Germany.
More intimately than ever before, she talks about her childhood, youth, and studies in the GDR and the dramatic year of 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell and her political life began. She also shares recollections and insights from her meetings and conversations with the world's most powerful people.
Discussing significant national, European, and international turning points, she shows how the decisions were made that shaped our times. Her book offers a unique insight into the inner workings of power – and is a compelling plea for freedom.
'Remarkable' – Financial Times
'Illuminating' – The New York Times Book Review
'A great accomplishment . . . A wonderful reflection of an extraordinary sweep of history' – Barack Obama
For 16 years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany. She led the country through numerous crises, shaping both Germany and international politics with her actions and attitudes. In her mem...
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Davis MOK
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December 13, 2024
Angela Merkel was a good chancellor of Germany. From my point of view, she did her best during that time and kept mutual benefits among different countries in democratic role.
KARL HIRST
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September 21, 2026
Great Book a Diary Full of Meetings in the last 20 years Text Descriptions Great Gives in depth how CDU Christian Democratic Union Run Germany with the Goverment Very Good Book my Bible
Tapani Anttalainen
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January 29, 2025
kind of interesting but mostly just Diary of meetings from 20 years.
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Angela Merkel, who served as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 2005 to 2021, was the first woman in the country's most powerful office. Born in 1954 in Hamburg and raised in the GDR, where she studied physics and earned a doctorate in physics, she was elected to the German Bundestag in 1990. From 1991 to 1994, she was the Federal Minister for Women and Youth; from 1994 to 1998, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety; and from 2000 to 2018, she was the leader of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany. In 2021, she ended her active political career.
Angela Merkel, who served as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 2005 to 2021, was the first woman in the country's most powerful office. Born in 1954 in Hamburg and raised in the GDR, where she studied physics and earned a doctorate in physics, she was elected to the German Bundes...
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