ABOUT THE EVENT
Kati Marton, an acclaimed journalist and author of the soon to be released, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel, joins The Common Good to discuss the incredible and enduring legacy of German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. This definitive biography details 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.
Wednesday, Feb. 2nd at 5:00pm EST
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Kati Marton is an acclaimed journalist and author, as well as an activist advocate for human rights and the freedom of the press. She is an award winning former NPR and ABC News Correspondent, the former chairwoman of the International Women’s Health Commission, a director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, and a member of the Council on Forign Relations. Marton has published eight books, which have been translated into five languages. Her Cold War Memoir Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America was a National Book Critics Circle finalist in 2009.
About the Moderator:
John Emerson is currently the Vice Chairman of Capital International, Inc., following a four year leave to serve as US Ambassador to Germany. Serving as United States Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany from 2013 through 2017, Emerson was Chief of Mission Germany, which includes the operation and activities of the Embassy, five consulates and nearly 2,000 employees, as well as coordinating with the U.S. military command in Germany. He interacted with the highest levels of the U.S. and German governments, as well as with the EU and NATO leaderships.
