Angela Merkel / Bloomberg (UK) Bd.1 (ePub)

Shortlisted for International Affairs Book of the Year
in the Paddy Power Political Book Awards 2014

Angela Merkel was already unique when she became German chancellor:
the first female leader of Europe's biggest economy, the
first from former communist East Germany and the first born after
World War II. Since 2010, the debt crisis that spread from Greece
to the euro region and the world economy has propelled her to
center-stage, making Merkel the dominant politician in the struggle
to preserve Europe's economic model and its single currency.
Yet the Protestant pastor's daughter is often viewed as
enigmatic and hard-to-predict, a misreading that took hold as she
resisted global pressure for grand gestures to counter the crisis.
Having turned the fall of the Berlin Wall to her advantage, Merkel
is trying to get history on her side again after reaching the
fundamental decision to save the euro, the crowning achievement of
post-war European unity. Merkel has brought Europe to a crossroads.
Germany's economic might gives her unprecedented power to set
the direction for the European Union's 500 million people.
What's at stake is whether she will persuade them to follow
the German lead.

Angela Merkel: A Chancellorship Forged in Crisis is the
definitive new biography of the world's most powerful woman.
Delving into Merkel's past, the authors explain the motives
behind her drive to remake Europe for the age of globalization, her
economic role models and the experiences under communism that color
her decisions. For the first time in English, Merkel is fully
placed in her European context. Through exclusive interviews with
leading policy makers and Merkel confidants, the book reveals the
behind-the-scenes drama of the crisis that came to dominate her
chancellorship, her prickly relationship with the U.S. and
admiration for Eastern Europe. Written by two long-standing Merkel
watchers, the book documents how her decisions and vision -
both works in progress - are shaping a pivotal moment in
European history.