Freedom : memoirs 1954-2021

Merkel, Angela, 1954- author.

First U.S. editon.

Book

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024.

©2024

709 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

For sixteen years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany and at the forefront of European and international politics. In her memoir, she looks back on her life in two German states--East Germany until 1990, and reunified Germany thereafter. How did she, coming from the East, rise to the top of the Christian Democratic Union to become the first woman to hold the office of chancellor? And how did she then become one of the most powerful heads of government in the Western world? What guided her?

Merkel, Angela, 1954-

Women prime ministers -- Germany -- Biography.

Prime ministers -- Germany -- Biography.

Political leadership -- Germany -- History -- 21st century.

Germany -- Politics and government -- 1990-

Germany -- Foreign relations -- 21st century.

Germany -- Biography.

Autobiographies.

Baumann, Beate, author.

Prologue -- Part one: "I wasn't born a Chancellor", July 17, 1954 to November 9, 1989. Happy childhood -- Off and away -- At the East German Academy of Sciences -- Part two: Democratic awakening, November 10, 1989 to December 2, 1990. Unity and justice and freedom -- Standing on my own two feet -- Part three: Freedom and responsibility, December 3, 1990 to November 21, 2005. "Aufbau Ost" -- Equal rights -- Sustainability -- Why the CDU? -- Part four: Serving Germany (I), November 22, 2005 to September 4, 2015. First -- A summer's tale -- Hosting in a wicker beach chair -- Global economic crisis -- Euro crisis -- Ukraine and Georgia in NATO? -- Peace and self-determination in Ukraine -- "We can do this!" -- Part five: Serving Germany (II), September 5, 2015 to December 8, 2021. A friendly face -- An interconnected world--the Reef Knot -- Climate and energy -- The Bundeswehr in active service -- Israel -- Kairos -- The Pandemic -- Epilogue.

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