A "biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the ... rise and political brilliance of the most powerful--and elusive--woman in the world. [The book] is at once a ... 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. ... 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"--
