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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
I habe keine Zweifel daran, dass Frau Merkel dieses Buch selbst geschrieben hat. Leider meine ich das nicht als Kompliment. Das Buch war in erster Linie ein <i>politisches<i> Memoire, gar kein persönliches. Und manchmal hatte ich das Gefühl, Sie habe dieses Buch geschrieben um sich zu erklären, nicht um etwas Neues zu sagen.
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I am not sure, not being a German, how Merkel is viewed in her home country. But as an American I find her book to be incredibly level headed. She strikes a balance between defending her actions and being humble of what she sees as errors she made. This was refreshing to read after Nancy Pelosi's book last year where she couldn't be forced to ever admit she did anything even remotely incorrect her entire political career.
The book felt a bit unbalanced in the pacing. The first quarter or so about her childhood was engaging and quick paced, then we lag a bit in the middle (one awful chapter where she alphabetically lists all her meetings, yikes, should have been scrapped) after a bit the pace picks back up, as she tries to cover quite a bit. I appreciated how she routinely circled back to growing up in East Germany and how that split country, and repressed social order, shaped how she saw the world - from finances to immigration.
This overall was an affective autobiography. It is over 700 pages in English, and I felt fully engaged throughout. While I don't agree with her on many points of her politics, I thought she did a decent job explaining how she saw things, and why she made the decisions she did, and it sounds like she really has taken other people's opinions on her mistakes into account, and like she is someone who you can have a decent conversation with if you do not agree.
The book felt a bit unbalanced in the pacing. The first quarter or so about her childhood was engaging and quick paced, then we lag a bit in the middle (one awful chapter where she alphabetically lists all her meetings, yikes, should have been scrapped) after a bit the pace picks back up, as she tries to cover quite a bit. I appreciated how she routinely circled back to growing up in East Germany and how that split country, and repressed social order, shaped how she saw the world - from finances to immigration.
This overall was an affective autobiography. It is over 700 pages in English, and I felt fully engaged throughout. While I don't agree with her on many points of her politics, I thought she did a decent job explaining how she saw things, and why she made the decisions she did, and it sounds like she really has taken other people's opinions on her mistakes into account, and like she is someone who you can have a decent conversation with if you do not agree.
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challenging
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Bis zum letzten Tag an dem ich politische Verantwortung trug, mehr als 30 Jahre lang, sollte mich die Frage begleiten wann und wie die deutsche Einheit tatsächlich vollendet sein würde.
Ein extrem detaillierter Einblick in ihr politisches Leben, auf Ihre nüchternen Art und Weise. Sie beabsichtigt nicht sich zu rechtfertigen, sondern bemüht sich Entscheidungsprozesse möglichst umfassend und verständlich zu erläutern. Ich halte sie für eine faszinierende, intelligente Frau, und einen Einblick in ihr Denken zu bekommen, und auch zwischen den Zeilen zu lesen, hat sich gelohnt.
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This book is full of informations, facts and historical as well as political details, but Angela Merkel also reveals some of her characteristics and insights about her daily life, which makes her more approachable and relatable to me as a reader. Due to her quite calm and reasonable persona, I didn't expect any ground-breaking news, gossip or overly emotional confessions - she almost always describes situations in a respectful and objective way. I really enjoyed this read and as a German, I learned quite a lot of new things about German history.
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