講述梅克爾在鐵幕下成長,如何走上政治之路。秉持著道德信念及人道主義,善於談判,不輕易妥協並富有遠見的梅克爾突破艱難帶領德國重返世界舞台, 更在世界各國逐漸分裂之時,號召歐洲團結一心,獲得「歐洲之母」的稱號。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 and pastor's daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany--who rose to become the unofficial leader of the West.Acclaimed biographer Kati Marton set out to pierce the mystery of how Angela Merkel achieved all this. And she found the answer in Merkel's political genius: in her willingness to talk with adversaries rather than over them, her skill at negotiating without ever compromising on what's most important to her, her canniness in appointing political rivals to her cabinet and exacting their policies so they have no platform to run against her, the humility to allow others to take cre