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The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
Marton, Kati. The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Why this matters here
Marton’s The Chancellor narrates Merkel’s East German formation, scientific training, advance through committees and coalition arithmetic, and a public style wary of theatrical certainty. When Authority Is Misread uses that biography against media hunger for decisive spectacle: speech treated as extension of reasoning can be misread as weakness. The source is a political life of Merkel; the book asks how authority is misread when certainty is performed as proof.
