The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

Kati Marton

History

William Collins

A biography of the extraordinary Swede who rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews--by a combination of diplomacy, bullying, ingenuity, and outright audacity--and who, having vanished in 1945, is thought by some to survive still in a Soviet gulag

Wallenberg

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Random House]

The stunning story of the breathtaking journey of nine extraordinary men from Budapest to the New World, what they experienced along their dangerous route, and how they changed America and the world. In a style both personal and historically groundbreaking, acclaimed author Kati Marton (herself born in Budapest) tells the tale of their youth in Budapest's Golden Age of the early twentieth century, their flight, and their lives of extraordinary accomplishment, danger, glamour, and poignancy. Marton follows these nine over the decades as they flee fascism and anti-Semitism, seek sanctuary in America and England, and set out to make their mark. The scientists Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, and Eugene Wigner enlist Albert Einstein to get Franklin Roosevelt to initiate the development of the atomic bomb. Along with John von Neuman, who pioneers the computer, they succeed in achieving that goal before Nazi Germany, ending the Second World War, and opening a new age. Arthur Koestler writes the most important anti-Communist novel of the century, Darkness at Noon. Robert Capa is the first photographer ashore on D-Day. He virtually invents photojournalism and gives us some of the century's most enduring records of modern warfare. Andre Kertesz pioneers modern photojournalism, and Alexander Korda, who makes propaganda films for Churchill, leaves the stark portrait of a post war Europe with The Third Man, as his fellow filmmaker, Michael Curtiz, leaves us the immortal Casablanca, a call to arms and the most famous romantic film of all time. Marton brings passion and breadth to these dramatic lives as they help invent the twentieth century.

The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World

Americas

Tantor Media, Inc.

[Library Edition Audiobook CD in vinyl case.] [Read by Kathe Mazur] This is a memoir for anyone who has ever fallen in love in Paris, or with Paris--and for anyone who has ever had their heart broken or their life upended. In this remarkably honest memoir, award-winning journalist and distinguished author Kati Marton presents an impassioned and romantic story of love, loss, and life after loss. Paris is at the heart of this deeply moving account. At every stage of her life, Paris offers Marton beauty and excitement, and now, after the sudden death of her husband, Richard Holbrooke, it offers a chance for a fresh beginning. With intimate and nuanced portraits of Peter Jennings, the man to whom she was married for fifteen years and with whom she had two children, and Richard, with whom she found enduring love, Marton paints a vivid account of an adventuresome life in the stream of history. Inspirational and deeply human, Paris: A Love Story will touch every generation.

Paris: A Love Story

Memoirs

Blackstone Audiobooks

[Read by Kathe Mazur] This is a memoir for anyone who has ever fallen in love in Paris, or with Paris -- and for anyone who has ever had their heart broken or their life upended. In this remarkably honest memoir, award-winning journalist and distinguished author Kati Marton presents an impassioned and romantic story of love, loss, and life after loss. Paris is at the heart of this deeply moving account. At every stage of her life, Paris offers Marton beauty and excitement, and now, after the sudden death of her husband, Richard Holbrooke, it offers a chance for a fresh beginning. With intimate and nuanced portraits of Peter Jennings, the man to whom she was married for fifteen years and with whom she had two children, and Richard, with whom she found enduring love, Marton paints a vivid account of an adventuresome life in the stream of history. Inspirational and deeply human, Paris: A Love Story will touch every generation.

[MP3CD Audiobook format in vinyl case] [Read by Kathe Mazur] This is a memoir for anyone who has ever fallen in love in Paris, or with Paris--and for anyone who has ever had their heart broken or their life upended. In this remarkably honest memoir, award-winning journalist and distinguished author Kati Marton presents an impassioned and romantic story of love, loss, and life after loss. Paris is at the heart of this deeply moving account. At every stage of her life, Paris offers Marton beauty and excitement, and now, after the sudden death of her husband, Richard Holbrooke, it offers a chance for a fresh beginning. With intimate and nuanced portraits of Peter Jennings, the man to whom she was married for fifteen years and with whom she had two children, and Richard, with whom she found enduring love, Marton paints a vivid account of an adventuresome life in the stream of history. Inspirational and deeply human, Paris: A Love Story will touch every generation.

Paris: A Love Story; A Memoir

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 credit for things done in tandem, the wisdom to stay out of the papers and off Twitter, and the vision to take advantage of crises to enact bold change. 
Famously private, the Angela Merkel who emerges in The Chancellor is a role model for anyone interested in gaining and keeping power while holding onto one’s moral convictions -- and for anyone looking to understand how to successfully bridge huge divisions within society. No modern leader has so ably confronted Russian aggression, provided homes to over a million refugees, and calmly unified Europe at a time when other countries are becoming more divided. But Marton also describes Merkel’s many challenges, such as her complicated relationship with President Obama, who she at one point refused to speak to. 
This captivating portrait shows a woman who has survived extraordinary challenges to transform her own country and return it to the global stage. Timely and revelatory, this great morality tale shows the difference an exceptional leader can make for the greater good of a country and the world.

Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing

Die Flucht der Genies

Eichborn Verlag Ag

Kati Marton szülei a legjelent?sebb amerikai hírügynökségek - az UPI és az AP - budapesti tudósítói voltak a 40-es évek végét?l - azokban a sötét években, amikor a leggátlástalanabbul dühöngött az ÁVO terrorja, amikor rajtuk kívül már nem volt külföldi tudósító a külvilágtól egyre hermetikusabban elzárt Magyarországon. Tudósítottak Rajk és Mindszenty perér?l - és igyekeztek igazat írni, fittyet hányva a hatóságoknak. Úgy viselkedtek , "mintha..." - mintha normális dolog lett volna magyar létükre amerikai újságírónak lenni az ötvenes évek Magyarországán. Helyzetük kényes volt, és mondhatni eleve gyanús mindenki szemében - a hidegháború általános kémhisztériája idején nemcsak a magyar hatóságok, de az amerikaiak is kémet sejtettek bennük. Az ÁVO minden lépésüket figyelte, és besúgókkal vette körül ?ket, mialatt a Marton házaspár szinte felszabadult könnyedséggel - valójában hihetetlen feszültségek közepette - élte a nyugati újságírók életét, ami a kor Magyarországán természetesen mer? látszat lehetett csupán. A hatóságok lassan, de biztosan egyre szorosabbra húzták a hurkot körülöttük, de - ki tudja, miért? - egészen 1954-ig elt?rték a tevékenységüket. Akkor aztán letartóztatták el?bb az apát, majd az édesanyát is - kislányaik pedig, a 9 éves Kati és három évvel id?sebb n?vére egyszerre kicsöppent az addigi védettségb?l, és egy ismeretlen családhoz került, mélységes szegénységbe. A család viszontagságos története az ÁVO börtönével, a szabadulással és az emigrációval azonban nem ér véget: a Marton család már évek óta Amerikában élt, hitük szerint teljes biztonságban, amikor ide is utánuk nyúlt a magyar titkosszolgálat keze...

A nép ellenségei - Családom regénye [The Enemies of the People]

Corvina Kiado

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The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

Wallenberg

The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World

Paris: A Love Story

Paris: A Love Story

Paris: A Love Story; A Memoir

The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

Die Flucht der Genies

A nép ellenségei - Családom regénye [The Enemies of the People]