A Degree of Light-Heartedness
Christopher Clark: Merkel’s Two Lives, 20 February 2025
Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021
by Angela Merkel with Beate Baumann, translated by Alice Tetley-Paul et al.
Macmillan, 709 pp., £35, November 2024,978 1 0350 2075 1 Show More
by Angela Merkel with Beate Baumann, translated by Alice Tetley-Paul et al.
Macmillan, 709 pp., £35, November 2024,
“... Schröder, and his chief of staff, whose offices were elsewhere, Merkel and her office manager (Beate Baumann, co-author of the memoir) worked in close proximity to the rest of her staff: ‘We were close enough to speak to one another quickly and easily without having to leave a suite of rooms … The doors between these offices were kept open ... ”
