Angela Merkel was elected chancellor of Germany on November 22, 2005, becoming the first woman to hold that job. In many ways ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is stepping down after 16 years. Author and former NPR correspondent Kati Marton has written a new biography of Merkel titled, appropriately, The Chancellor. Marton ...

It seems as though Angela Merkel has been the leader of Germany forever, and in fact, she's governed the country for close to a generation. But when the most powerful woman in the world first won the ...

Angela Dorothea Merkel (née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a German former politician and scientist who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. A member of the Christian Democratic Union ...

Angela Merkel has set out to secure her reputation in a 700-page memoir in which the former German chancellor defends her 16 years in office. Critics increasingly believe that her leadership led ...

Angela Merkel, the most powerful woman in the world, is no friend of her biographers. It’s not only that the groundbreaking German chancellor routinely refuses to be interviewed. Merkel apparently has ...

To label Kati Marton’s biography of Angela Merkel a hagiography would not be fair—not entirely. That said, when she writes of the chancellor being “too busy saving the world” to have much time for ...

These pejoratives condemn former German Christian Democratic Union Chancellor Angela Merkel’s overweight 700-page memoir as not worth the price of admission. Merkel served 16 years as chancellor from ...

Angela Merkel has a face she makes when things don’t go according to plan. She has arrived in Recklinghausen, a city in Germany’s industrial Ruhr district, to deliver a stump speech at a rally of her ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Jacob Heilbrunn THE CHANCELLOR The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel By Kati Marton In 1852, ...

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